ELF22: A Context-based Counter Trolling Dataset to Combat Internet Trolls

Huije Lee, Young Ju Na, Hoyun Song, Jisu Shin, Jong Park


Abstract
Online trolls increase social costs and cause psychological damage to individuals. With the proliferation of automated accounts making use of bots for trolling, it is difficult for targeted individual users to handle the situation both quantitatively and qualitatively. To address this issue, we focus on automating the method to counter trolls, as counter responses to combat trolls encourage community users to maintain ongoing discussion without compromising freedom of expression. For this purpose, we propose a novel dataset for automatic counter response generation. In particular, we constructed a pair-wise dataset that includes troll comments and counter responses with labeled response strategies, which enables models fine-tuned on our dataset to generate responses by varying counter responses according to the specified strategy. We conducted three tasks to assess the effectiveness of our dataset and evaluated the results through both automatic and human evaluation. In human evaluation, we demonstrate that the model fine-tuned with our dataset shows a significantly improved performance in strategy-controlled sentence generation.
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.378
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
3530–3541
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.378
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Cite (ACL):
Huije Lee, Young Ju Na, Hoyun Song, Jisu Shin, and Jong Park. 2022. ELF22: A Context-based Counter Trolling Dataset to Combat Internet Trolls. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3530–3541, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
ELF22: A Context-based Counter Trolling Dataset to Combat Internet Trolls (Lee et al., LREC 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.378.pdf
Code
 huijelee/elf22