PEACE: Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection- A Causality-guided Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08804v2
• Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:44:47 GMT
• Title: PEACE: Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection- A Causality-guided Framework
• Authors: Paras Sheth, Tharindu Kumarage, Raha Moraffah, Aman Chadha, and Huan Liu
• Abstract summary: Hate speech detection refers to the task of detecting hateful content that aims at denigrating an individual or a group based on their religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. We propose a causality-guided framework, PEACE, that identifies and leverages two intrinsic causal cues omnipresent in hateful content.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hate speech detection refers to the task of detecting hateful content that aims at denigrating an individual or a group based on their religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. Due to the different policies of the platforms, different groups of people express hate in different ways. Furthermore, due to the lack of labeled data in some platforms it becomes challenging to build hate speech detection models. To this end, we revisit if we can learn a generalizable hate speech detection model for the cross platform setting, where we train the model on the data from one (source) platform and generalize the model across multiple (target) platforms. Existing generalization models rely on linguistic cues or auxiliary information, making them biased towards certain tags or certain kinds of words (e.g., abusive words) on the source platform and thus not applicable to the target platforms. Inspired by social and psychological theories, we endeavor to explore if there exist inherent causal cues that can be leveraged to learn generalizable representations for detecting hate speech across these distribution shifts. To this end, we propose a causality-guided framework, PEACE, that identifies and leverages two intrinsic causal cues omnipresent in hateful content: the overall sentiment and the aggression in the text. We conduct extensive experiments across multiple platforms (representing the distribution shift) showing if causal cues can help cross-platform generalization.

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