David Salvador Márquez
2025
NLP@IIMAS-CLTL at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Combating Hate Speech Using Contextualized Knowledge Graph Representations and LLMs
David Salvador Márquez
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Helena Montserrat Gómez Adorno
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Ilia Markov
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Selene Báez Santamaría
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation
We present our approach for the shared task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation (MCG) to counteract hate speech (HS) in Spanish, English, Basque, and Italian. To accomplish this, we followed two different strategies: 1) a graph-based generative model that encodes graph representations of knowledge related to hate speech, and 2) leveraging prompts for a large language model (LLM), specifically GPT-4o. We find that our graph-based approach tends to perform better in terms of traditional evaluation metrics (i.e., RougeL, BLEU, BERTScore), while the JudgeLM evaluation employed in the shared task favors the counter-narratives generated by the LLM-based approach, which was ranked second for English and third for Spanish on the leaderboard.