Revisiting Annotation of Online Gender-Based Violence

Gavin Abercrombie, Nikolas Vitsakis, Aiqi Jiang, Ioannis Konstas


Abstract
Online Gender-Based Violence is an increasing problem, but existing datasets fail to capture the plurality of possible annotator perspectives or ensure representation of affected groups. In a pilot study, we revisit the annotation of a widely used dataset to investigate the relationship between annotator identities and underlying attitudes and the responses they give to a sexism labelling task. We collect demographic and attitudinal information about crowd-sourced annotators using two validated surveys from Social Psychology. While we do not find any correlation between underlying attitudes and annotation behaviour, ethnicity does appear to be related to annotator responses for this pool of crowd-workers. We also conduct initial classification experiments using Large Language Models, finding that a state-of-the-art model trained with human feedback benefits from our broad data collection to perform better on the new labels. This study represents the initial stages of a wider data collection project, in which we aim to develop a taxonomy of GBV in partnership with affected stakeholders.
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2024.nlperspectives-1.3
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Gavin Abercrombie, Valerio Basile, Davide Bernadi, Shiran Dudy, Simona Frenda, Lucy Havens, Sara Tonelli
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Gavin Abercrombie, Nikolas Vitsakis, Aiqi Jiang, and Ioannis Konstas. 2024. Revisiting Annotation of Online Gender-Based Violence. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 31–41, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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