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Differentiating hate speech: a systemic discrimination approach

In this paper I develop a systemic discrimination approach to defining a narrowly construed category of hate speech, as speech that harms to a sufficient degree to warrant government regulation. This is important due to the lack of definitional …

Hate Speech Detection on Vietnamese Social Media Text using the Bi-GRU-LSTM-CNN Model

In recent years, Hate Speech Detection has become one of the interesting fields in natural language processing or computational linguistics. In this paper, we present the description of our system to solve this problem at the VLSP shared task 2019: …

Hate speech detection: A solved problem? the challenging case of long tail on twitter

In recent years, the increasing propagation of hate speech on social media and the urgent need for effective counter-measures have drawn significant investment from governments, companies, and researchers. A large number of methods have been …

Hate speech on social media networks: towards a regulatory framework?

Social networks serve as effective platforms in which users ideas can be spread in an easy and efficient manner. However, those ideas can be hateful and harmful, some of which may even amount to hate speech. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have …

HateMonitors: Language Agnostic Abuse Detection in Social Media

Reducing hateful and offensive content in online social media pose a dual problem for the moderators. On the one hand, rigid censorship on social media cannot be imposed. On the other, the free flow of such content cannot be …

Learning to Decipher Hate Symbols

Existing computational models to understand hate speech typically frame the problem as a simple classification task, bypassing the understanding of hate symbols (e.g., 14 words, kigy) and their secret connotations. In this paper, we propose a novel …

Overview of the hasoc track at fire 2019: Hate speech and offensive content identification in indo-european languages

The identification of Hate Speech in Social Media is of great importance and receives much attention in the text classification community. There is a huge demand for research for languages other than English. The HASOC track intends to stimulate

Spread of hate speech in online social media

The present online social media platform is afflicted with several issues, with hate speech being on the predominant forefront. The prevalence of online hate speech has fueled horrific real-world hate-crime such as the mass-genocide of Rohingya …

The risk of racial bias in hate speech detection

We investigate how annotators insensitivity to differences in dialect can lead to racial bias in automatic hate speech detection models, potentially amplifying harm against minority populations. We first uncover unexpected correlations between …

Thou shalt not hate: Countering online hate speech

Hate content in social media is ever increasing. While Facebook, Twitter, Google have attempted to take several steps to tackle the hateful content, they have mostly been unsuccessful. Counterspeech is seen as an effective way of tackling the online …