COLD: A Benchmark for Chinese Offensive Language Detection

Jiawen Deng, Jingyan Zhou, Hao Sun, Chujie Zheng, Fei Mi, Helen Meng, Minlie Huang

Abstract
Offensive language detection is increasingly crucial for maintaining a civilized social media platform and deploying pre-trained language models. However, this task in Chinese is still under exploration due to the scarcity of reliable datasets. To this end, we propose a benchmark –COLD for Chinese offensive language analysis, including a Chinese Offensive Language Dataset –COLDATASET and a baseline detector –COLDETECTOR which is trained on the dataset. We show that the COLD benchmark contributes to Chinese offensive language detection which is challenging for existing resources. We then deploy the COLDETECTOR and conduct detailed analyses on popular Chinese pre-trained language models. We first analyze the offensiveness of existing generative models and show that these models inevitably expose varying degrees of offensive issues. Furthermore, we investigate the factors that influence the offensive generations, and we find that anti-bias contents and keywords referring to certain groups or revealing negative attitudes trigger offensive outputs easier.
Anthology ID:
2022.emnlp-main.796
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
December
Year:
2022
Address:
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Editors:
Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
11580–11599
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.796
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.796
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Jiawen Deng, Jingyan Zhou, Hao Sun, Chujie Zheng, Fei Mi, Helen Meng, and Minlie Huang. 2022. COLD: A Benchmark for Chinese Offensive Language Detection. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11580–11599, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
COLD: A Benchmark for Chinese Offensive Language Detection (Deng et al., EMNLP 2022)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2022.emnlp-main.796.pdf
PDF Search