Reducing Unintended Identity Bias in Russian Hate Speech Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11666v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:54:14 GMT
• Title: Reducing Unintended Identity Bias in Russian Hate Speech Detection
• Authors: Nadezhda Zueva, Madina Kabirova, Pavel Kalaidin
• Abstract summary: This paper describes our efforts towards classifying hate speech in Russian. We propose simple techniques of reducing unintended bias, such as generating training data with language models using terms and words related to protected identities as context.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Toxicity has become a grave problem for many online communities and has been growing across many languages, including Russian. Hate speech creates an environment of intimidation, discrimination, and may even incite some real-world violence. Both researchers and social platforms have been focused on developing models to detect toxicity in online communication for a while now. A common problem of these models is the presence of bias towards some words (e.g. woman, black, jew) that are not toxic, but serve as triggers for the classifier due to model caveats. In this paper, we describe our efforts towards classifying hate speech in Russian, and propose simple techniques of reducing unintended bias, such as generating training data with language models using terms and words related to protected identities as context and applying word dropout to such words.

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