Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08886v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:27:48 GMT
• Title: Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions
• Authors: Wenjie Yin, Arkaitz Zubiaga
• Abstract summary: This survey paper attempts to summarise how generalisable existing hate speech detection models are. It sums up existing attempts at addressing the main obstacles, and then proposes directions of future research to improve generalisation in hate speech detection.
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• Abstract: Hate speech is one type of harmful online content which directly attacks or promotes hate towards a group or an individual member based on their actual or perceived aspects of identity, such as ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. With online hate speech on the rise, its automatic detection as a natural language processing task is gaining increasing interest. However, it is only recently that it has been shown that existing models generalise poorly to unseen data. This survey paper attempts to summarise how generalisable existing hate speech detection models are, reason why hate speech models struggle to generalise, sums up existing attempts at addressing the main obstacles, and then proposes directions of future research to improve generalisation in hate speech detection.

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