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title = "Hyderabadi Pearls at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation : {HALT} : Hate Speech Alleviation using Large Language Models and Transformers",
author = "Farhan, Md Shariq",
editor = "Bonaldi, Helena and
Vallecillo-Rodr{\'i}guez, Mar{\'i}a Estrella and
Zubiaga, Irune and
Montejo-R{\'a}ez, Arturo and
Soroa, Aitor and
Mart{\'i}n-Valdivia, Mar{\'i}a Teresa and
Guerini, Marco and
Agerri, Rodrigo",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.mcg-1.8/",
pages = "65--76",
abstract = "This paper explores the potential of using fine- tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating counter-narratives (CNs) to combat hate speech (HS). We focus on English and Basque, leveraging the ML{\_}MTCONAN{\_}KN dataset, which provides hate speech and counter-narrative pairs in multiple languages. Our study compares the performance of Mis- tral, Llama, and a Llama-based LLM fine- tuned on a Basque language dataset for CN generation. The generated CNs are evalu- ated using JudgeLM (a LLM to evaluate other LLMs in open-ended scenarios) along with traditional metrics such as ROUGE-L, BLEU, BERTScore, and other traditional metrics. The results demonstrate that fine-tuned LLMs can produce high-quality contextually relevant CNs for low-resource languages that are comparable to human-generated responses, offering a sig- nificant contribution to combating online hate speech across diverse linguistic settings."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hyderabadi Pearls at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation : HALT : Hate Speech Alleviation using Large Language Models and Transformers
%A Farhan, Md Shariq
%Y Bonaldi, Helena
%Y Vallecillo-Rodríguez, María Estrella
%Y Zubiaga, Irune
%Y Montejo-Ráez, Arturo
%Y Soroa, Aitor
%Y Martín-Valdivia, María Teresa
%Y Guerini, Marco
%Y Agerri, Rodrigo
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, UAE
%F farhan-2025-hyderabadi
%X This paper explores the potential of using fine- tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating counter-narratives (CNs) to combat hate speech (HS). We focus on English and Basque, leveraging the ML_MTCONAN_KN dataset, which provides hate speech and counter-narrative pairs in multiple languages. Our study compares the performance of Mis- tral, Llama, and a Llama-based LLM fine- tuned on a Basque language dataset for CN generation. The generated CNs are evalu- ated using JudgeLM (a LLM to evaluate other LLMs in open-ended scenarios) along with traditional metrics such as ROUGE-L, BLEU, BERTScore, and other traditional metrics. The results demonstrate that fine-tuned LLMs can produce high-quality contextually relevant CNs for low-resource languages that are comparable to human-generated responses, offering a sig- nificant contribution to combating online hate speech across diverse linguistic settings.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.mcg-1.8/
%P 65-76
Markdown (Informal)
[Hyderabadi Pearls at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation : HALT : Hate Speech Alleviation using Large Language Models and Transformers](https://aclanthology.org/2025.mcg-1.8/) (Farhan, MCG 2025)
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