A Federated Approach to Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection for Marginalized Communities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04942v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT
• Title: A Federated Approach to Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection for Marginalized Communities
• Authors: Haotian Ye, Axel Wisiorek, Antonis Maronikolakis, Özge Alaçam, Hinrich Schütze,
• Abstract summary: Hate speech online remains an understudied issue for marginalized communities. In this paper, we aim to provide marginalized communities living in societies where the dominant language is low-resource with a privacy-preserving tool to protect themselves from hate speech on the internet.
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• Abstract: Hate speech online remains an understudied issue for marginalized communities, and has seen rising relevance, especially in the Global South, which includes developing societies with increasing internet penetration. In this paper, we aim to provide marginalized communities living in societies where the dominant language is low-resource with a privacy-preserving tool to protect themselves from hate speech on the internet by filtering offensive content in their native languages. Our contribution in this paper is twofold: 1) we release REACT (REsponsive hate speech datasets Across ConTexts), a collection of high-quality, culture-specific hate speech detection datasets comprising seven distinct target groups in eight low-resource languages, curated by experienced data collectors; 2) we propose a solution to few-shot hate speech detection utilizing federated learning (FL), a privacy-preserving and collaborative learning approach, to continuously improve a central model that exhibits robustness when tackling different target groups and languages. By keeping the training local to the users' devices, we ensure the privacy of the users' data while benefitting from the efficiency of federated learning. Furthermore, we personalize client models to target-specific training data and evaluate their performance. Our results indicate the effectiveness of FL across different target groups, whereas the benefits of personalization on few-shot learning are not clear.

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