Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach

Lei Gao, Alexis Kuppersmith, Ruihong Huang


Abstract
In the wake of a polarizing election, social media is laden with hateful content. To address various limitations of supervised hate speech classification methods including corpus bias and huge cost of annotation, we propose a weakly supervised two-path bootstrapping approach for an online hate speech detection model leveraging large-scale unlabeled data. This system significantly outperforms hate speech detection systems that are trained in a supervised manner using manually annotated data. Applying this model on a large quantity of tweets collected before, after, and on election day reveals motivations and patterns of inflammatory language.
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I17-1078
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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774–782
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Lei Gao, Alexis Kuppersmith, and Ruihong Huang. 2017. Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 774–782, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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