Improving Adversarial Data Collection by Supporting Annotators: Lessons from GAHD, a German Hate Speech Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19559v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:44:14 GMT
• Title: Improving Adversarial Data Collection by Supporting Annotators: Lessons from GAHD, a German Hate Speech Dataset
• Authors: Janis Goldzycher, Paul Röttger, Gerold Schneider,
• Abstract summary: We introduce GAHD, a new German Adversarial Hate speech dataset comprising ca. 11k examples. Our experiments show that the resulting dataset is challenging even for state-of-the-art hate speech detection models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hate speech detection models are only as good as the data they are trained on. Datasets sourced from social media suffer from systematic gaps and biases, leading to unreliable models with simplistic decision boundaries. Adversarial datasets, collected by exploiting model weaknesses, promise to fix this problem. However, adversarial data collection can be slow and costly, and individual annotators have limited creativity. In this paper, we introduce GAHD, a new German Adversarial Hate speech Dataset comprising ca.\ 11k examples. During data collection, we explore new strategies for supporting annotators, to create more diverse adversarial examples more efficiently and provide a manual analysis of annotator disagreements for each strategy. Our experiments show that the resulting dataset is challenging even for state-of-the-art hate speech detection models, and that training on GAHD clearly improves model robustness. Further, we find that mixing multiple support strategies is most advantageous. We make GAHD publicly available at https://github.com/jagol/gahd.

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