Listening to Affected Communities to Define Extreme Speech: Dataset and Experiments

Maronikolakis, Antonis; Wisiorek, Axel ; Nann, Leah; Jabbar, Haris; Udupa, Sahana und Schütze, Hinrich (Mai 2022): Listening to Affected Communities to Define Extreme Speech: Dataset and Experiments. ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland, May 2022. Mureșan, Smaranda; Nakov, Preslav und Villavicencio, Aline (Hrsg.): In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. S. 1089-1104

Abstract

Building on current work on multilingual hate speech (e.g., Ousidhoum et al. (2019)) and hate speech reduction (e.g., Sap et al. (2020)), we present XTREMESPEECH, a new hate speech dataset containing 20,297 social media passages from Brazil, Germany, India and Kenya. The key novelty is that we directly involve the affected communities in collecting and annotating the data – as opposed to giving companies and governments control over defining and combatting hate speech. This inclusive approach results in datasets more representative of actually occurring online speech and is likely to facilitate the removal of the social media content that marginalized communities view as causing the most harm. Based on XTREMESPEECH, we establish novel tasks with accompanying baselines, provide evidence that cross-country training is generally not feasible due to cultural differences between countries and perform an interpretability analysis of BERT’s predictions.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Paper)
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 957442
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Ethnologie
• Fakultätsübergreifende Einrichtungen: Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung (CIS)
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme ; 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache ; 400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik
• Ort: Stroudsburg, PA
• Sprache: Englisch