Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09917v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:54:39 GMT
• Title: Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models
• Authors: Paul R\"ottger, Haitham Seelawi, Debora Nozza, Zeerak Talat, Bertie Vidgen
• Abstract summary: We introduce HateCheck (MHC), a suite of functional tests for multilingual hate speech detection models. MHC covers 34 functionalities across ten languages, which is more languages than any other hate speech dataset. We train and test a high-performing multilingual hate speech detection model, and reveal critical model weaknesses for monolingual and cross-lingual applications.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hate speech detection models are typically evaluated on held-out test sets. However, this risks painting an incomplete and potentially misleading picture of model performance because of increasingly well-documented systematic gaps and biases in hate speech datasets. To enable more targeted diagnostic insights, recent research has thus introduced functional tests for hate speech detection models. However, these tests currently only exist for English-language content, which means that they cannot support the development of more effective models in other languages spoken by billions across the world. To help address this issue, we introduce Multilingual HateCheck (MHC), a suite of functional tests for multilingual hate speech detection models. MHC covers 34 functionalities across ten languages, which is more languages than any other hate speech dataset. To illustrate MHC's utility, we train and test a high-performing multilingual hate speech detection model, and reveal critical model weaknesses for monolingual and cross-lingual applications.

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