Vanessa Cortez
2021
MIN_PT: An European Portuguese Lexicon for Minorities Related Terms
Paula Fortuna
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Vanessa Cortez
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Miguel Sozinho Ramalho
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Laura Pérez-Mayos
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021)
Hate speech-related lexicons have been proved to be useful for many tasks such as data collection and classification. However, existing Portuguese lexicons do not distinguish between European and Brazilian Portuguese, and do not include neutral terms that are potentially useful to detect a broader spectrum of content referring to minorities. In this work, we present MIN_PT, a new European Portuguese Lexicon for Minorities-Related Terms specifically designed to tackle the limitations of existing resources. We describe the data collection and annotation process, discuss the limitation and ethical concerns, and prove the utility of the resource by applying it to a use case for the Portuguese 2021 presidential elections.