English
Related papers

Related papers: Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Language Models to Detect …

200 papers

The exponential increase in the use of the Internet and social media over the last two decades has changed human interaction. This has led to many positive outcomes, but at the same time it has brought risks and harms. While the volume of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Neeraj Vashistha , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Shanky Sharma

Hate speech is increasingly prevalent online, and its negative outcomes include increased prejudice, extremism, and even offline hate crime. Automatic detection of online hate speech can help us to better understand these impacts. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 John D Gallacher

In the recent past, social media platforms have helped people in connecting and communicating to a wider audience. But this has also led to a drastic increase in cyberbullying. It is essential to detect and curb hate speech to keep the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ravindra Nayak , Raviraj Joshi

Online platforms take proactive measures to detect and address undesirable behavior, aiming to focus these resource-intensive efforts where such behavior is most prevalent. This article considers the problem of efficient sampling for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jacob Morrier , Rafal Kocielnik , R. Michael Alvarez

In our increasingly interconnected digital world, social media platforms have emerged as powerful channels for the dissemination of hate speech and offensive content. This work delves into the domain of hate speech detection, placing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ananya Joshi , Raviraj Joshi

Hate speech detection is a challenging problem with most of the datasets available in only one language: English. In this paper, we conduct a large scale analysis of multilingual hate speech in 9 languages from 16 different sources. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sai Saketh Aluru , Binny Mathew , Punyajoy Saha , Animesh Mukherjee

The social media platform is a convenient medium to express personal thoughts and share useful information. It is fast, concise, and has the ability to reach millions. It is an effective place to archive thoughts, share artistic content,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ramchandra Joshi , Rushabh Karnavat , Kaustubh Jirapure , Raviraj Joshi

The underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice. In this work, we unify nine human-human and multi-turn task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Chien-Sheng Wu , Steven Hoi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

While neural networks demonstrate a remarkable ability to model linguistic content, capturing contextual information related to a speaker's conversational role is an open area of research. In this work, we analyze the effect of speaker role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Samee Ibraheem , Gaoyue Zhou , John DeNero

Online toxic language causes real harm, especially in regions with limited moderation tools. In this study, we evaluate how large language models handle toxic comments in Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, languages with limited labeled data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Amel Muminovic , Amela Kadric Muminovic

The content on the web is in a constant state of flux. New entities, issues, and ideas continuously emerge, while the semantics of the existing conversation topics gradually shift. In recent years, pre-trained language models like BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Spurthi Amba Hombaiah , Tao Chen , Mingyang Zhang , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

Pre-training by language modeling has become a popular and successful approach to NLP tasks, but we have yet to understand exactly what linguistic capacities these pre-training processes confer upon models. In this paper we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Allyson Ettinger

In this work we explore cyberbullying and other toxic behavior in team competition online games. Using a dataset of over 10 million player reports on 1.46 million toxic players along with corresponding crowdsourced decisions, we test…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Haewoon Kwak , Jeremy Blackburn , Seungyeop Han

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

Hate speech is a form of online harassment that involves the use of abusive language, and it is commonly seen in social media posts. This sort of harassment mainly focuses on specific group characteristics such as religion, gender,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Georgios K. Pitsilis

Text classification problem is a very broad field of study in the field of natural language processing. In short, the text classification problem is to determine which of the previously determined classes the given text belongs to.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 D. Emre Taşar , Şükrü Ozan , M. Fatih Akca , Oğuzhan Ölmez , Semih Gülüm , Seçilay Kutal , Ceren Belhan

Fine-tuning language models has become increasingly popular following the proliferation of open models and improvements in cost-effective parameter efficient fine-tuning. However, fine-tuning can influence model properties such as safety.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Will Hawkins , Brent Mittelstadt , Chris Russell

With the development of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, both their vast applications and potential vulnerabilities have come to the forefront. While developers have integrated multiple safety mechanisms to mitigate their misuse,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xiao Liu , Liangzhi Li , Tong Xiang , Fuying Ye , Lu Wei , Wangyue Li , Noa Garcia

Nowadays, offensive content in social media has become a serious problem, and automatically detecting offensive language is an essential task. In this paper, we build an offensive language detection system, which combines multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenliang Dai , Tiezheng Yu , Zihan Liu , Pascale Fung

With a growing number of BERTology work analyzing different components of pre-trained language models, we extend this line of research through an in-depth analysis of discourse information in pre-trained and fine-tuned language models. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini