Publication
Title
Improving Hate Speech Type and Target Detection with Hateful Metaphor Features
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Abstract
We study the usefulness of hateful metaphors as features for the identification of the type and target of hate speech in Dutch Facebook comments. For this purpose, all hateful metaphors in the Dutch LiLaH corpus were annotated and interpreted in line with Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis. We provide SVM and BERT/RoBERTa results, and investigate the effect of different metaphor information encoding methods on hate speech type and target detection accuracy. The results of the conducted experiments show that hateful metaphor features improve model performance for the both tasks. To our knowledge, it is the first time that the effectiveness of hateful metaphors as an information source for hate speech classification is investigated.
Language
English
Source (book)
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
Publication
Association for Computational Linguistics , 2021
ISBN
978-1-954085-26-8
DOI
10.18653/V1/2021.NLP4IF-1.2
Volume/pages
p. 7-16
Medium
E-only publicatie
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Artificial intelligence for creative language use.
The linguistic landscape of hate speech on social media.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 26.08.2021
Last edited 17.06.2024
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