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Toxic speech, also known as hate speech, is regarded as one of the crucial issues plaguing online social media today. Most recent work on toxic speech detection is constrained to the modality of text and written conversations with very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sreyan Ghosh , Samden Lepcha , S Sakshi , Rajiv Ratn Shah , S. Umesh

Text toxicity detection systems exhibit significant biases, producing disproportionate rates of false positives on samples mentioning demographic groups. But what about toxicity detection in speech? To investigate the extent to which…

Despite extensive research on toxic speech detection in text, a critical gap remains in handling spoken Mandarin audio. The lack of annotated datasets that capture the unique prosodic cues and culturally specific expressions in Mandarin…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yu-Xiang Luo , Yi-Cheng Lin , Ming-To Chuang , Jia-Hung Chen , I-Ning Tsai , Pei Xing Kiew , Yueh-Hsuan Huang , Chien-Feng Liu , Yu-Chen Chen , Bo-Han Feng , Wenze Ren , Hung-yi Lee

Toxic speech detection has become a crucial challenge in maintaining safe online communication environments. However, existing approaches to toxic speech detection often neglect the contribution of paralinguistic cues, such as emotion,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zhongjie Ba , Liang Yi , Peng Cheng , Qingcao Li , Qinglong Wang , Li Lu

We introduce MULTI-EURLEX, a new multilingual dataset for topic classification of legal documents. The dataset comprises 65k European Union (EU) laws, officially translated in 23 languages, annotated with multiple labels from the EUROVOC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Ilias Chalkidis , Manos Fergadiotis , Ion Androutsopoulos

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

Scaling semantic parsing models for task-oriented dialog systems to new languages is often expensive and time-consuming due to the lack of available datasets. Available datasets suffer from several shortcomings: a) they contain few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Haoran Li , Abhinav Arora , Shuohui Chen , Anchit Gupta , Sonal Gupta , Yashar Mehdad

We study the selection of transfer languages for automatic abusive language detection. Instead of preparing a dataset for every language, we demonstrate the effectiveness of cross-lingual transfer learning for zero-shot abusive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Juuso Eronen , Michal Ptaszynski , Fumito Masui , Masaki Arata , Gniewosz Leliwa , Michal Wroczynski

This work addresses the development of a database for the automatic assessment of text-to-speech (TTS) systems in Spanish, aiming to improve the accuracy of naturalness prediction models. The dataset consists of 4,326 audio samples from 52…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Alejandro Sosa Welford , Leonardo Pepino

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

Added toxicity in the context of translation refers to the fact of producing a translation output with more toxicity than there exists in the input. In this paper, we present MinTox which is a novel pipeline to identify added toxicity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Marta R. Costa-jussà , David Dale , Maha Elbayad , Bokai Yu

As large language models become increasingly integrated into daily life, detecting implicit toxicity across diverse contexts is crucial. To this end, we introduce LifeTox, a dataset designed for identifying implicit toxicity within a broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Minbeom Kim , Jahyun Koo , Hwanhee Lee , Joonsuk Park , Hwaran Lee , Kyomin Jung

In this work, we introduce X-FACT: the largest publicly available multilingual dataset for factual verification of naturally existing real-world claims. The dataset contains short statements in 25 languages and is labeled for veracity by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Vivek Srikumar

Improving multilingual language models capabilities in low-resource languages is generally difficult due to the scarcity of large-scale data in those languages. In this paper, we relax the reliance on texts in low-resource languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Fajri Koto , Tilman Beck , Zeerak Talat , Iryna Gurevych , Timothy Baldwin

There is a lack of research into capabilities of recent LLMs to generate convincing text in languages other than English and into performance of detectors of machine-generated text in multilingual settings. This is also reflected in the…

Zero-shot learning models are capable of classifying new classes by transferring knowledge from the seen classes using auxiliary information. While most of the existing zero-shot learning methods focused on single-label classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

There has been a recent spike in interest in multi-modal Language and Vision problems. On the language side, most of these models primarily focus on English since most multi-modal datasets are monolingual. We try to bridge this gap with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Pranav Aggarwal , Ajinkya Kale

Machine Translation systems can produce different types of errors, some of which are characterized as critical or catastrophic due to the specific negative impact that they can have on users. In this paper we focus on one type of critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Marta R. Costa-jussà , Eric Smith , Christophe Ropers , Daniel Licht , Jean Maillard , Javier Ferrando , Carlos Escolano

There has been a recent spike in interest in multi-modal Language and Vision problems. On the language side, most of these models primarily focus on English since most multi-modal datasets are monolingual. We try to bridge this gap with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Pranav Aggarwal , Ritiz Tambi , Ajinkya Kale

To date, toxicity mitigation in language models has almost entirely been focused on single-language settings. As language models embrace multilingual capabilities, it's crucial our safety measures keep pace. Recognizing this research gap,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Luiza Pozzobon , Patrick Lewis , Sara Hooker , Beyza Ermis
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