Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08777v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:31:06 GMT
• Title: Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder
• Authors: Khouloud Mnassri, Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi
• Abstract summary: Existing works on hate speech and offensive language detection produce promising results based on pre-trained transformer models. This paper addresses a multi-task joint learning approach which combines external emotional features extracted from another corpora. Our findings demonstrate that emotional knowledge helps to more reliably identify hate speech and offensive language across datasets.
• Score: 1.8734449181723825
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rise of emergence of social media platforms has fundamentally altered how people communicate, and among the results of these developments is an increase in online use of abusive content. Therefore, automatically detecting this content is essential for banning inappropriate information, and reducing toxicity and violence on social media platforms. The existing works on hate speech and offensive language detection produce promising results based on pre-trained transformer models, however, they considered only the analysis of abusive content features generated through annotated datasets. This paper addresses a multi-task joint learning approach which combines external emotional features extracted from another corpora in dealing with the imbalanced and scarcity of labeled datasets. Our analysis are using two well-known Transformer-based models, BERT and mBERT, where the later is used to address abusive content detection in multi-lingual scenarios. Our model jointly learns abusive content detection with emotional features by sharing representations through transformers' shared encoder. This approach increases data efficiency, reduce overfitting via shared representations, and ensure fast learning by leveraging auxiliary information. Our findings demonstrate that emotional knowledge helps to more reliably identify hate speech and offensive language across datasets. Our hate speech detection Multi-task model exhibited 3% performance improvement over baseline models, but the performance of multi-task models were not significant for offensive language detection task. More interestingly, in both tasks, multi-task models exhibits less false positive errors compared to single task scenario.

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