Perspectives on Hate: General vs. Domain-Specific Models

Giulia Rizzi, Michele Fontana, Elisabetta Fersini


Abstract
The rise of online hostility, combined with broad social media use, leads to the necessity of the comprehension of its human impact. However, the process of hate identification is challenging because, on the one hand, the line between healthy disagreement and poisonous speech is not well defined, and, on the other hand, multiple socio-cultural factors or prior beliefs shape people’s perceptions of potentially harmful text. To address disagreements in hate speech identification, Natural Language Processing (NLP) models must capture several perspectives. This paper introduces a strategy based on the Contrastive Learning paradigm for detecting disagreements in hate speech using pre-trained language models. Two approaches are proposed: the General Model, a comprehensive framework, and the Domain-Specific Model, which focuses on more specific hate-related tasks. The source code is available at ://anonymous.4open.science/r/Disagreement-530C.
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2024.nlperspectives-1.8
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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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NLPerspectives | WS
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78–83
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Giulia Rizzi, Michele Fontana, and Elisabetta Fersini. 2024. Perspectives on Hate: General vs. Domain-Specific Models. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 78–83, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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