Abstract
The perception of offensive language varies based on cultural, social, and individual perspectives. With the spread of social media, there has been an increase in offensive content online, necessitating advanced solutions for its identification and moderation. This paper addresses the practical application of an offensive language taxonomy, specifically targeting Hebrew social media texts. By introducing a newly annotated dataset, modeled after the taxonomy of explicit offensive language of (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk et al., 2023)„ we provide a comprehensive examination of various degrees and aspects of offensive language. Our findings indicate the complexities involved in the classification of such content. We also outline the implications of relying on fixed taxonomies for Hebrew.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.woah-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Yi-Ling Chung, Zeerak Talat, Debora Nozza, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Paul Röttger, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Agostina Calabrese
- Venues:
- WOAH | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 110–117
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.woah-1.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Chaya Liebeskind, Marina Litvak, and Natalia Vanetik. 2024. From Linguistics to Practice: a Case Study of Offensive Language Taxonomy in Hebrew. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024), pages 110–117, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- From Linguistics to Practice: a Case Study of Offensive Language Taxonomy in Hebrew (Liebeskind et al., WOAH-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jeptaln-2024-ingestion/2024.woah-1.8.pdf