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CRUSH: Contextually Regularized and User anchored Self-supervised Hate speech Detection

Computation and Language 2022-05-05 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction Social and Information Networks

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a surge in the interaction of people through social networking platforms. While there are several positive aspects of these social platforms, the proliferation has led them to become the breeding ground for cyber-bullying and hate speech. Recent advances in NLP have often been used to mitigate the spread of such hateful content. Since the task of hate speech detection is usually applicable in the context of social networks, we introduce CRUSH, a framework for hate speech detection using user-anchored self-supervision and contextual regularization. Our proposed approach secures ~ 1-12% improvement in test set metrics over best performing previous approaches on two types of tasks and multiple popular english social media datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2204.06389,
  title  = {CRUSH: Contextually Regularized and User anchored Self-supervised Hate speech Detection},
  author = {Souvic Chakraborty and Parag Dutta and Sumegh Roychowdhury and Animesh Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06389},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted in NAACL HLT 2022 (Long Paper)

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