VRLLab at HSD-2Lang 2024: Turkish Hate Speech Detection Online with TurkishBERTweet

Ali Najafi, Onur Varol


Abstract
Social media platforms like Twitter - recently rebranded as X - produce nearly half a billion tweets daily and host a significant number of users that can be affected by content that are not properly moderated. In this work, we present an approach that ranked third at the HSD-2Lang 2024 competition’s subtask-A along with additional methodology developed for this task and evaluation of different approaches. We utilize three different models and the best performing approach use publicly-available TurkishBERTweet model with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for fine tuning. We also experiment with another publicly available model and a novel methodology to ensemble different hand-crafted features and outcomes of different models. Finally, we report the experimental results, competition scores, and discussion to improve this effort further.
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2024.case-1.25
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2024)
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March
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2024
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St. Julians, Malta
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Surendrabikram Thapa, Gökçe Uludoğan
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CASE | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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185–189
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Ali Najafi and Onur Varol. 2024. VRLLab at HSD-2Lang 2024: Turkish Hate Speech Detection Online with TurkishBERTweet. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2024), pages 185–189, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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VRLLab at HSD-2Lang 2024: Turkish Hate Speech Detection Online with TurkishBERTweet (Najafi & Varol, CASE-WS 2024)
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