Interpretable Multi-Modal Hate Speech Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01616v1
• Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:12:26 GMT
• Title: Interpretable Multi-Modal Hate Speech Detection
• Authors: Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Hugo Larochelle, Deb Roy
• Abstract summary: We propose a deep neural multi-modal model that can effectively capture the semantics of the text along with socio-cultural context in which a particular hate expression is made. Our model is able to outperform the existing state-of-the-art hate speech classification approaches.
• Score: 32.36781061930129
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: With growing role of social media in shaping public opinions and beliefs across the world, there has been an increased attention to identify and counter the problem of hate speech on social media. Hate speech on online spaces has serious manifestations, including social polarization and hate crimes. While prior works have proposed automated techniques to detect hate speech online, these techniques primarily fail to look beyond the textual content. Moreover, few attempts have been made to focus on the aspects of interpretability of such models given the social and legal implications of incorrect predictions. In this work, we propose a deep neural multi-modal model that can: (a) detect hate speech by effectively capturing the semantics of the text along with socio-cultural context in which a particular hate expression is made, and (b) provide interpretable insights into decisions of our model. By performing a thorough evaluation of different modeling techniques, we demonstrate that our model is able to outperform the existing state-of-the-art hate speech classification approaches. Finally, we show the importance of social and cultural context features towards unearthing clusters associated with different categories of hate.

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