HP-BERT: A framework for longitudinal study of Hinduphobia on social media via language models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05482v2
• Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:40:38 GMT
• Title: HP-BERT: A framework for longitudinal study of Hinduphobia on social media via language models
• Authors: Ashutosh Singh, Rohitash Chandra,
• Abstract summary: We present a computational framework for analyzing anti-Hindu sentiment (Hinduphobia) during the COVID-19 period.<n>We develop the Hinduphobic BERT (HP-BERT) model using this dataset and achieve 94.72% accuracy.<n>This study provides evidence of social media-based religious discrimination during a COVID-19 crisis.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, community tensions intensified, contributing to discriminatory sentiments against various religious groups, including Hindu communities. Recent advances in language models have shown promise for social media analysis with potential for longitudinal studies of social media platforms, such as X (Twitter). We present a computational framework for analyzing anti-Hindu sentiment (Hinduphobia) during the COVID-19 period, introducing an abuse detection and sentiment analysis approach for longitudinal analysis on X. We curate and release a "Hinduphobic COVID-19 XDataset" containing 8,000 annotated and manually verified tweets. We then develop the Hinduphobic BERT (HP-BERT) model using this dataset and achieve 94.72\% accuracy, outperforming baseline Transformer-based language models. The model incorporates multi-label sentiment analysis capabilities through additional fine-tuning. Our analysis encompasses approximately 27.4 million tweets from six countries, including Australia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Statistical analysis reveals moderate correlations (r = 0.312-0.428) between COVID-19 case increases and Hinduphobic content volume, highlighting how pandemic-related stress may contribute to discriminatory discourse. This study provides evidence of social media-based religious discrimination during a COVID-19 crisis.

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