Dynamically Refined Regularization for Improving Cross-corpora Hate Speech Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12536v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:58:10 GMT
• Title: Dynamically Refined Regularization for Improving Cross-corpora Hate Speech Detection
• Authors: Tulika Bose, Nikolaos Aletras, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr
• Abstract summary: Hate speech classifiers exhibit substantial performance degradation when evaluated on datasets different from the source. Previous work has attempted to mitigate this problem by regularizing specific terms from pre-defined static dictionaries. We propose to automatically identify and reduce spurious correlations using attribution methods with dynamic refinement of the list of terms.
• Score: 30.462596705180534
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hate speech classifiers exhibit substantial performance degradation when evaluated on datasets different from the source. This is due to learning spurious correlations between words that are not necessarily relevant to hateful language, and hate speech labels from the training corpus. Previous work has attempted to mitigate this problem by regularizing specific terms from pre-defined static dictionaries. While this has been demonstrated to improve the generalizability of classifiers, the coverage of such methods is limited and the dictionaries require regular manual updates from human experts. In this paper, we propose to automatically identify and reduce spurious correlations using attribution methods with dynamic refinement of the list of terms that need to be regularized during training. Our approach is flexible and improves the cross-corpora performance over previous work independently and in combination with pre-defined dictionaries.

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