@inproceedings{di-bonaventura-etal-2025-hatevolution,
    title = "Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don{'}t Tell Us",
    author = "Di Bonaventura, Chiara  and
      McGillivray, Barbara  and
      He, Yulan  and
      Mero{\~n}o-Pe{\~n}uela, Albert",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/acl25-workshop-ingestion/2025.findings-acl.910/",
    pages = "17695--17707",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5",
    abstract = "Language changes over time, including in the hate speech domain, which evolves quickly following social dynamics and cultural shifts. While NLP research has investigated the impact of language evolution on model training and has proposed several solutions for it, its impact on model benchmarking remains under-explored. Yet, hate speech benchmarks play a crucial role to ensure model safety. In this paper, we empirically evaluate the robustness of 20 language models across two evolving hate speech experiments, and we show the temporal misalignment between static and time-sensitive evaluations. Our findings call for time-sensitive linguistic benchmarks in order to correctly and reliably evaluate language models in the hate speech domain."
}