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Task oriented language understanding in dialog systems is often modeled using intents (task of a query) and slots (parameters for that task). Intent detection and slot tagging are, in turn, modeled using sentence classification and word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta , Mrinal Mohit , Rushin Shah

Toxic content detection in online communication remains a significant challenge, with current solutions often inadvertently blocking valuable information, including medical terms and text related to minority groups. This paper presents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Melania Berbatova , Tsvetoslav Vasev

Toxicity classification for voice heavily relies on the semantic content of speech. We propose a novel framework that utilizes cross-modal learning to integrate the semantic embedding of text into a multilabel speech toxicity classifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Joseph Liu , Mahesh Kumar Nandwana , Janne Pylkkönen , Hannes Heikinheimo , Morgan McGuire

Automatic toxic language detection is critical for creating safe, inclusive online spaces. However, it is a highly subjective task, with perceptions of toxic language shaped by community norms and lived experience. Existing toxicity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ashima Suvarna , Christina Chance , Karolina Naranjo , Hamid Palangi , Sophie Hao , Thomas Hartvigsen , Saadia Gabriel

A game's theme is an important part of its design -- it conveys narrative information, rhetorical messages, helps the player intuit strategies, aids in tutorialisation and more. Thematic elements of games are notoriously difficult for AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Rabii Younès , Cook Michael

In recent years, online social networks have allowed worldwide users to meet and discuss. As guarantors of these communities, the administrators of these platforms must prevent users from adopting inappropriate behaviors. This verification…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Noé Cecillon , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linarès

Data-driven analysis and detection of abusive online content covers many different tasks, phenomena, contexts, and methodologies. This paper systematically reviews abusive language dataset creation and content in conjunction with an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bertie Vidgen , Leon Derczynski

Text-based games are suitable test-beds for designing agents that can learn by interaction with the environment in the form of natural language text. Very recently, deep reinforcement learning based agents have been successfully applied for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Ghulam Ahmed Ansari , Sagar J P , Sarath Chandar , Balaraman Ravindran

We have collected over 30M messages from the publicly available /pol/ message boards on 4chan and 8chan, and compiled them into a model of toxic language use. The trained word embeddings (0.4GB) are released for free and may be useful for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Pierre Voué , Tom De Smedt , Guy De Pauw

To foster collaboration and inclusivity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, it is crucial to understand and detect patterns of toxic language that may drive contributors away, especially those from underrepresented communities. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ramtin Ehsani , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Preetha Chatterjee

Abusive language is a massive problem in online social platforms. Existing abusive language detection techniques are particularly ill-suited to comments containing heterogeneous abusive language patterns, i.e., both abusive and non-abusive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Hongyu Gong , Alberto Valido , Katherine M. Ingram , Giulia Fanti , Suma Bhat , Dorothy L. Espelage

ChatGPT is one of the most popular language models which achieve amazing performance on various natural language tasks. Consequently, there is also an urgent need to detect the texts generated ChatGPT from human written. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Han Xu , Jie Ren , Pengfei He , Shenglai Zeng , Yingqian Cui , Amy Liu , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

Model interpretability in toxicity detection greatly profits from token-level annotations. However, currently such annotations are only available in English. We introduce a dataset annotated for offensive language detection sourced from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Pia Pachinger , Janis Goldzycher , Anna Maria Planitzer , Wojciech Kusa , Allan Hanbury , Julia Neidhardt

Significant progress has been made recently on challenging tasks in automatic sign language understanding, such as sign language recognition, translation and production. However, these works have focused on datasets with relatively few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alvaro Budria , Laia Tarres , Gerard I. Gallego , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Social network platforms are generally used to share positive, constructive, and insightful content. However, in recent times, people often get exposed to objectionable content like threat, identity attacks, hate speech, insults, obscene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar

The proliferation of online toxic speech is a pertinent problem posing threats to demographic groups. While explicit toxic speech contains offensive lexical signals, implicit one consists of coded or indirect language. Therefore, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nhat M. Hoang , Xuan Long Do , Duc Anh Do , Duc Anh Vu , Luu Anh Tuan

The spectacular expansion of the Internet has led to the development of a new research problem in the field of natural language processing: automatic toxic comment detection, since many countries prohibit hate speech in public media. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ashwin Geet D'Sa , Irina Illina , Dominique Fohr

Research on relationship quality often relies on lengthy questionnaires or invasive textual corpora, limiting ecological validity and user privacy. We ask whether a sequence of single-word choices made in a playful setting can reveal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yueshen Li , Krishnaveni Unnikrishnan , Aadya Agrawal

Toxicity on the Internet, such as hate speech, offenses towards particular users or groups of people, or the use of obscene words, is an acknowledged problem. However, there also exist other types of inappropriate messages which are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Nikolay Babakov , Varvara Logacheva , Alexander Panchenko

Cooperative video games, where multiple participants must coordinate by communicating and reasoning under uncertainty in complex environments, yield a rich source of language data. We collect the Portal Dialogue Corpus: a corpus of 11.5…