Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection

Tulika Bose, Nikolaos Aletras, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr

Abstract
State-of-the-art approaches for hate-speech detection usually exhibit poor performance in out-of-domain settings. This occurs, typically, due to classifiers overemphasizing source-specific information that negatively impacts its domain invariance. Prior work has attempted to penalize terms related to hate-speech from manually curated lists using feature attribution methods, which quantify the importance assigned to input terms by the classifier when making a prediction. We, instead, propose a domain adaptation approach that automatically extracts and penalizes source-specific terms using a domain classifier, which learns to differentiate between domains, and feature-attribution scores for hate-speech classes, yielding consistent improvements in cross-domain evaluation.
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2022.coling-1.578
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6656–6666
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Tulika Bose, Nikolaos Aletras, Irina Illina, and Dominique Fohr. 2022. Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6656–6666, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Domain Classification-based Source-specific Term Penalization for Domain Adaptation in Hate-speech Detection (Bose et al., COLING 2022)
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