Relationality and Offensive Speech: A Research Agenda

Razvan Amironesei, Mark Diaz


Abstract
We draw from the framework of relationality as a pathway for modeling social relations to address gaps in text classification, generally, and offensive language classification, specifically. We use minoritized language, such as queer speech, to motivate a need for understanding and modeling social relations–both among individuals and among their social communities. We then point to socio-ethical style as a research area for inferring and measuring social relations as well as propose additional questions to structure future research on operationalizing social context.
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2023.woah-1.8
Volume:
The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Yi-ling Chung, Paul R{\"ottger}, Debora Nozza, Zeerak Talat, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani
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WOAH
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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85–95
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.woah-1.8
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.woah-1.8
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Razvan Amironesei and Mark Diaz. 2023. Relationality and Offensive Speech: A Research Agenda. In The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), pages 85–95, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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