Yousra Houichi


2024

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The Annotators Agree to Not Agree on the Fine-grained Annotation of Hate-speech against Women in Algerian Dialect Comments
Imane Guellil | Yousra Houichi | Sara Chennoufi | Mohamed Boubred | Anfal Yousra Boucetta | Faical Azouaou
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024

A significant number of research studies have been presented for detecting hate speech in social media during the last few years. However, the majority of these studies are in English. Only a few studies focus on Arabic and its dialects (especially the Algerian dialect) with a smaller number of them targeting sexism detection (or hate speech against women). Even the works that have been proposed on Arabic sexism detection consider two classes only (hateful and non-hateful), and three classes(adding the neutral class) in the best scenario. This paper aims to propose the first fine-grained corpus focusing on 13 classes. However, given the challenges related to hate speech and fine-grained annotation, the Kappa metric is relatively low among the annotators (i.e. 35% ). This work in progress proposes three main contributions: 1) Annotation of different categories related to hate speech such as insults, vulgar words or hate in general. 2) Annotation of 10,000 comments, in Arabic and Algerian dialects, automatically extracted from Youtube. 3) High-lighting the challenges related to manual annotation such as subjectivity, risk of bias, lack of annotation guidelines, etc

2022

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Ara-Women-Hate: An Annotated Corpus Dedicated to Hate Speech Detection against Women in the Arabic Community
Imane Guellil | Ahsan Adeel | Faical Azouaou | Mohamed Boubred | Yousra Houichi | Akram Abdelhaq Moumna
Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

In this paper, an approach for hate speech detection against women in the Arabic community on social media (e.g. Youtube) is proposed. In the literature, similar works have been presented for other languages such as English. However, to the best of our knowledge, not much work has been conducted in the Arabic language. A new hate speech corpus (Arabic_fr_en) is developed using three different annotators. For corpus validation, three different machine learning algorithms are used, including deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) network and Bi-directional LSTM (Bi-LSTM) network. Simulation results demonstrate the best performa