A Cross-Lingual Study of Homotransphobia on Twitter

Davide Locatelli, Greta Damo, Debora Nozza


Abstract
We present a cross-lingual study of homotransphobia on Twitter, examining the prevalence and forms of homotransphobic content in tweets related to LGBT issues in seven languages. Our findings reveal that homotransphobia is a global problem that takes on distinct cultural expressions, influenced by factors such as misinformation, cultural prejudices, and religious beliefs. To aid the detection of hate speech, we also devise a taxonomy that classifies public discourse around LGBT issues. By contributing to the growing body of research on online hate speech, our study provides valuable insights for creating effective strategies to combat homotransphobia on social media.
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2023.c3nlp-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, David Adelani, Dirk Hovy, Luciana Benotti
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C3NLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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16–24
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.c3nlp-1.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.c3nlp-1.3
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Davide Locatelli, Greta Damo, and Debora Nozza. 2023. A Cross-Lingual Study of Homotransphobia on Twitter. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), pages 16–24, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Cross-Lingual Study of Homotransphobia on Twitter (Locatelli et al., C3NLP 2023)
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