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    <abstract>As social distancing, self-quarantines, and travel restrictions have shifted a lot of pandemic conversations to social media so does the spread of hate speech. While recent machine learning solutions for automated hate and offensive speech identification are available on Twitter, there are issues with their interpretability. We propose a novel use of learned feature importance which improves upon the performance of prior state-of-the-art text classification techniques, while producing more easily interpretable decisions. We also discuss both technical and practical challenges that remain for this task.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hate and Toxic Speech Detection in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic using XAI: Ongoing Applied Research
%A Hardage, David
%A Najafirad, Peyman
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
%D 2020
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%X As social distancing, self-quarantines, and travel restrictions have shifted a lot of pandemic conversations to social media so does the spread of hate speech. While recent machine learning solutions for automated hate and offensive speech identification are available on Twitter, there are issues with their interpretability. We propose a novel use of learned feature importance which improves upon the performance of prior state-of-the-art text classification techniques, while producing more easily interpretable decisions. We also discuss both technical and practical challenges that remain for this task.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.36
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Markdown (Informal)

[Hate and Toxic Speech Detection in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic using XAI: Ongoing Applied Research](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.36) (Hardage & Najafirad, NLP-COVID19 2020)

• Hate and Toxic Speech Detection in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic using XAI: Ongoing Applied Research (Hardage & Najafirad, NLP-COVID19 2020)

ACL

• David Hardage and Peyman Najafirad. 2020. Hate and Toxic Speech Detection in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic using XAI: Ongoing Applied Research. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.