Improving code-mixed hate detection by native sample mixing: A case study for Hindi-English code-mixed scenario

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20755v2
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:01:00 GMT
• Title: Improving code-mixed hate detection by native sample mixing: A case study for Hindi-English code-mixed scenario
• Authors: Debajyoti Mazumder, Aakash Kumar, Jasabanta Patro,
• Abstract summary: This paper attempts to fill the gap through rigorous empirical experiments. We consider the Hindi-English code-mixed setup as a case study. Adding native hate samples in the code-mixed training set, even in small quantity, improved the performance of literatures for code-mixed hate detection.
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• Abstract: Hate detection has long been a challenging task for the NLP community. The task becomes complex in a code-mixed environment because the models must understand the context and the hate expressed through language alteration. Compared to the monolingual setup, we see much less work on code-mixed hate as large-scale annotated hate corpora are unavailable for the study. To overcome this bottleneck, we propose using native language hate samples (native language samples/ native samples hereafter). We hypothesise that in the era of multilingual language models (MLMs), hate in code-mixed settings can be detected by majorly relying on the native language samples. Even though the NLP literature reports the effectiveness of MLMs on hate detection in many cross-lingual settings, their extensive evaluation in a code-mixed scenario is yet to be done. This paper attempts to fill this gap through rigorous empirical experiments. We considered the Hindi-English code-mixed setup as a case study as we have the linguistic expertise for the same. Some of the interesting observations we got are: (i) adding native hate samples in the code-mixed training set, even in small quantity, improved the performance of MLMs for code-mixed hate detection, (ii) MLMs trained with native samples alone observed to be detecting code-mixed hate to a large extent, (iii) the visualisation of attention scores revealed that, when native samples were included in training, MLMs could better focus on the hate emitting words in the code-mixed context, and (iv) finally, when hate is subjective or sarcastic, naively mixing native samples doesn't help much to detect code-mixed hate. We will release the data and code repository to reproduce the reported results.

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