Benjamin Ashpole — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

MATCHED: Multimodal Authorship-Attribution To Combat Human Trafficking in Escort-Advertisement Data

Vageesh Kumar Saxena, Benjamin Ashpole, Gijs Van Dijck, Gerasimos Spanakis

ACL 2025finding

Human trafficking (HT) remains a critical issue, with traffickers increasingly leveraging online escort advertisements to advertise victims anonymously. Existing detection methods, including text-based Authorship Attribution (AA), overlook the multimodal nature of these ads, which combine text and i…

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2023

IDTraffickers: An Authorship Attribution Dataset to link and connect Potential Human-Trafficking Operations on Text Escort Advertisements

Vageesh Kumar Saxena, Benjamin Ashpole, Gijs van Dijck, Gerasimos Spanakis

EMNLP 2023long main

Human trafficking (HT) is a pervasive global issue affecting vulnerable individuals, violating their fundamental human rights. Investigations reveal that a significant number of HT cases are associated with online advertisements (ads), particularly in escort markets. Consequently, identifying and co…

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