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The COVID-19 pandemic has developed to be more than a bio-crisis as global news has reported a sharp rise in xenophobia and discrimination in both online and offline communities. Such toxic behaviors take a heavy toll on society, especially…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Md Rabiul Awal , Rui Cao , Sandra Mitrovic , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

There is an increase in the proliferation of online hate commensurate with the rise in the usage of social media. In response, there is also a significant advancement in the creation of automated tools aimed at identifying harmful text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay , Dennis Assenmacher , Jose M. Alonso Moral , Claudia Wagner

In the day and age of social media, users have become prone to online hate speech. Several attempts have been made to classify hate speech using machine learning but the state-of-the-art models are not robust enough for practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Tashvik Dhamija , Anjum , Rahul Katarya

With the ever-growing presence of social media platforms comes the increased spread of harmful content and the need for robust hate speech detection systems. Such systems easily overfit to specific targets and keywords, and evaluating them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Maike Züfle , Verna Dankers , Ivan Titov

We estimate the effect of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on racial animus, as measured by Google searches and Twitter posts including a commonly used anti-Asian racial slur. Our empirical strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous…

General Economics · Economics 2020-07-06 Runjing Lu , Yanying Sheng

Hate speech is plaguing the cyberspace along with user-generated content. This paper investigates the role of conversational context in the annotation and detection of online hate and counter speech, where context is defined as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Xinchen Yu , Eduardo Blanco , Lingzi Hong

In recent years, Vietnam witnesses the mass development of social network users on different social platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok. On social medias, hate speech has become a critical problem for social network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Son T. Luu , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

The automatic identification of offensive language such as hate speech is important to keep discussions civil in online communities. Identifying hate speech in multimodal content is a particularly challenging task because offensiveness can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Amrita Ganguly , Al Nahian Bin Emran , Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo , Md Nishat Raihan , Dhiman Goswami , Marcos Zampieri

Racism and intolerance on social media contribute to a toxic online environment which may spill offline to foster hatred, and eventually lead to physical violence. That is the case with online antisemitism, the specific category of hatred…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Raza Ul Mustafa , Nathalie Japkowicz

The prevalence of digital media and evolving sociopolitical dynamics have significantly amplified the dissemination of hateful content. Existing studies mainly focus on classifying texts into binary categories, often overlooking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Abinew Ali Ayele , Esubalew Alemneh Jalew , Adem Chanie Ali , Seid Muhie Yimam , Chris Biemann

Identifying hate speech content in the Arabic language is challenging due to the rich quality of dialectal variations. This study introduces a multilabel hate speech dataset in the Arabic language. We have collected 10000 Arabic tweets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Wajdi Zaghouani , Md. Rafiul Biswas

The proliferation of hate speech has inflicted significant societal harm, with its intensity and directionality closely tied to specific targets and arguments. In recent years, numerous machine learning-based methods have been developed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zewen Bai , Liang Yang , Shengdi Yin , Yuanyuan Sun , Hongfei Lin

Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, it is hard to achieve high agreement among annotators in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection. Existing neural network models principally regard labels as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Wenjie Yin , Vibhor Agarwal , Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Nishanth Sastry

Detecting hate speech in the workplace is a unique classification task, as the underlying social context implies a subtler version of conventional hate speech. Applications regarding a state-of the-art workplace sexism detection model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Dylan Grosz , Patricia Conde-Cespedes

In today's digital world, cyberbullying is a serious problem that can harm the mental and physical health of people who use social media. This paper explains just how serious cyberbullying is and how it really affects indi-viduals exposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rohan Biswas , Kasturi Ganguly , Arijit Das , Diganta Saha

The detection of hate speech online has become an important task, as offensive language such as hurtful, obscene and insulting content can harm marginalized people or groups. This paper presents TU Berlin team experiments and results on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Salar Mohtaj , Vera Schmitt , Sebastian Möller

Detecting and classifying instances of hate in social media text has been a problem of interest in Natural Language Processing in the recent years. Our work leverages state of the art Transformer language models to identify hate speech in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sayar Ghosh Roy , Ujwal Narayan , Tathagata Raha , Zubair Abid , Vasudeva Varma

Online hate speech is an important issue that breaks the cohesiveness of online social communities and even raises public safety concerns in our societies. Motivated by this rising issue, researchers have developed many traditional machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rui Cao , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Tuan-Anh Hoang

Most current approaches to characterize and detect hate speech focus on \textit{content} posted in Online Social Networks. They face shortcomings to collect and annotate hateful speech due to the incompleteness and noisiness of OSN text and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Pedro H. Calais , Yuri A. Santos , Virgílio A. F. Almeida , Wagner Meira

In the past few years, there has been a significant rise in toxic and hateful content on various social media platforms. Recently Black Lives Matter movement came into the picture, causing an avalanche of user generated responses on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Sumit Kumar , Raj Ratn Pranesh