Machines Do See Color: A Guideline to Classify Different Forms of Racist Discourse in Large Corpora

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09333v2
• Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:01:01 GMT
• Title: Machines Do See Color: A Guideline to Classify Different Forms of Racist Discourse in Large Corpora
• Authors: Diana Davila Gordillo, Joan Timoneda, Sebastian Vallejo Vera
• Abstract summary: Current methods to identify and classify racist language in text rely on small-n qualitative approaches or large-n approaches focusing exclusively on overt forms of racist discourse. This article provides a step-by-step generalizable guideline to identify and classify different forms of racist discourse in large corpora.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Current methods to identify and classify racist language in text rely on small-n qualitative approaches or large-n approaches focusing exclusively on overt forms of racist discourse. This article provides a step-by-step generalizable guideline to identify and classify different forms of racist discourse in large corpora. In our approach, we start by conceptualizing racism and its different manifestations. We then contextualize these racist manifestations to the time and place of interest, which allows researchers to identify their discursive form. Finally, we apply XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R), a cross-lingual model for supervised text classification with a cutting-edge contextual understanding of text. We show that XLM-R and XLM-R-Racismo, our pretrained model, outperform other state-of-the-art approaches in classifying racism in large corpora. We illustrate our approach using a corpus of tweets relating to the Ecuadorian ind\'igena community between 2018 and 2021.

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