Oddballs and Misfits: Detecting Implicit Abuse in Which Identity Groups are Depicted as Deviating from the Norm

Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer


Abstract
We address the task of detecting abusive sentences in which identity groups are depicted as deviating from the norm (e.g. Gays sprinkle flour over their gardens for good luck). These abusive utterances need not be stereotypes or negative in sentiment. We introduce the first dataset for this task. It is created via crowdsourcing and includes 7 identity groups. We also report on classification experiments.
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2024.emnlp-main.132
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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Michael Wiegand and Josef Ruppenhofer. 2024. Oddballs and Misfits: Detecting Implicit Abuse in Which Identity Groups are Depicted as Deviating from the Norm. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2200–2218, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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