Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection

Bertie Vidgen, Tristan Thrush, Zeerak Waseem, Douwe Kiela


Abstract
We present a human-and-model-in-the-loop process for dynamically generating datasets and training better performing and more robust hate detection models. We provide a new dataset of 40,000 entries, generated and labelled by trained annotators over four rounds of dynamic data creation. It includes 15,000 challenging perturbations and each hateful entry has fine-grained labels for the type and target of hate. Hateful entries make up 54% of the dataset, which is substantially higher than comparable datasets. We show that model performance is substantially improved using this approach. Models trained on later rounds of data collection perform better on test sets and are harder for annotators to trick. They also have better performance on HateCheck, a suite of functional tests for online hate detection. We provide the code, dataset and annotation guidelines for other researchers to use.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-long.132
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
Venues:
ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1667–1682
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.132
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.132
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Cite (ACL):
Bertie Vidgen, Tristan Thrush, Zeerak Waseem, and Douwe Kiela. 2021. Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1667–1682, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection (Vidgen et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.132.pdf
Optional supplementary material:
 2021.acl-long.132.OptionalSupplementaryMaterial.zip
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.132.mp4
Code
 bvidgen/Dynamically-Generated-Hate-Speech-Dataset +  additional community code