Abusive Language

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30 shown of 51 papers with code (166 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Racial Bias in Hate Speech and Abusive Language Detection Datasets
  29 May 2019 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
  Technologies for abusive language detection are being developed and applied with little consideration of their potential biases.
• Comparative Studies of Detecting Abusive Language on Twitter
  30 Aug 2018 4 repositories listed
  However, this dataset has not been comprehensively studied to its potential.
• A Multi-Task Benchmark for Abusive Language Detection in Low-Resource Settings
  17 May 2025 1 repository listed
  This work presents a large-scale human-annotated multi-task benchmark dataset for abusive language detection in Tigrinya social media with joint annotations for three tasks: abusiveness, sentiment, and topic…
• AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
  14 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  These limitations are mainly due to the lack of high-quality data in the local languages and the failure to include local communities in the collection, annotation, and moderation processes.
• Towards Efficient and Explainable Hate Speech Detection via Model Distillation
  18 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Automatic detection of hate and abusive language is essential to combat its online spread.
• Towards Cross-Lingual Audio Abuse Detection in Low-Resource Settings with Few-Shot Learning
  2 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  We investigate the potential of pre-trained audio representations for detecting abusive language in low-resource languages, in this case, in Indian languages using Few Shot Learning (FSL).
• ThreatGram 101 - Extreme Telegram Replies Data with Threat Levels
  30 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  To address this gap, we present a comprehensive dataset of user replies from Telegram channels associated with political extremism or the cyberbullying of public officials in the United States.
• EkoHate: Abusive Language and Hate Speech Detection for Code-switched Political Discussions on Nigerian Twitter
  28 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  However, little or none has been done in the detection of abusive language and hate speech in Nigeria.
• Breaking the Silence Detecting and Mitigating Gendered Abuse in Hindi, Tamil, and Indian English Online Spaces
  2 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Online gender-based harassment is a widespread issue limiting the free expression and participation of women and marginalized genders in digital spaces.
• Concept-Based Explanations to Test for False Causal Relationships Learned by Abusive Language Classifiers
  4 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  Classifiers tend to learn a false causal relationship between an over-represented concept and a label, which can result in over-reliance on the concept and compromised classification accuracy.
• Rationale-Guided Few-Shot Classification to Detect Abusive Language
  30 Nov 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified
  We introduce two rationale-integrated BERT-based architectures (the RGFS models) and evaluate our systems over five different abusive language datasets, finding that in the few-shot classification setting, RGFS-based…
• Is More Data Better? Re-thinking the Importance of Efficiency in Abusive Language Detection with Transformers-Based Active Learning
  21 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  Annotating abusive language is expensive, logistically complex and creates a risk of psychological harm.
• Overview of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021
  14 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present two shared tasks of abusive and threatening language detection for the Urdu language which has more than 170 million speakers worldwide.
• Identifying Implicitly Abusive Remarks about Identity Groups using a Linguistically Informed Approach
  1 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  We address the task of distinguishing implicitly abusive sentences on identity groups (“Muslims contaminate our planet”) from other group-related negative polar sentences (“Muslims despise terrorism”).
• “Zo Grof !”: A Comprehensive Corpus for Offensive and Abusive Language in Dutch
  1 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  This paper presents a comprehensive corpus for the study of socially unacceptable language in Dutch.
• UPB at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Enhancing UNITER with Image Sentiment and Graph Convolutional Networks for Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification
  29 May 2022 1 repository listed
  In recent times, the detection of hate-speech, offensive, or abusive language in online media has become an important topic in NLP research due to the exponential growth of social media and the propagation of such…
• MUCIC@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil Language using 1D Conv-LSTM
  1 May 2022 1 repository listed
  To address the automatic detection of abusive languages in online platforms, this paper describes the models submitted by our team - MUCIC to the shared task on “Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil-ACL 2022”.
• BpHigh@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Effects of Data Augmentation on Indic-Transformer based classifier for Abusive Comments Detection in Tamil
  1 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Tamil has also emerged as a popular language for use on social media platforms due to the increasing penetration of vernacular media like Sharechat and Moj, which focus more on local Indian languages than English and…
• Data Bootstrapping Approaches to Improve Low Resource Abusive Language Detection for Indic Languages
  26 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  In this paper, to bridge the gap, we demonstrate a large-scale analysis of multilingual abusive speech in Indic languages.
• Improving Generalizability in Implicitly Abusive Language Detection with Concept Activation Vectors
  5 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  Robustness of machine learning models on ever-changing real-world data is critical, especially for applications affecting human well-being such as content moderation.
• Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu using Boosting based and BERT based models: A Comparative Approach
  27 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  In this FIRE 2021 shared task - "HASOC- Abusive and Threatening language detection in Urdu" the organizers propose an abusive language detection dataset in Urdu along with threatening language detection.
• A Large-scale Comprehensive Abusiveness Detection Dataset with Multifaceted Labels from Reddit
  1 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  As users in online communities suffer from severe side effects of abusive language, many researchers attempted to detect abusive texts from social media, presenting several datasets for such detection.
• ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI
  20 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  We find that the distribution of abuse is vastly different compared to other commonly used datasets, with more sexually tinted aggression towards the virtual persona of these systems.
• German Abusive Language Dataset with Focus on COVID-19
  1 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
• Investigating Annotator Bias in Abusive Language Datasets
  1 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  A prevalent form of bias in hate speech and abusive language datasets is annotator bias caused by the annotator’s subjective perception and the complexity of the annotation task.
• Annotating Online Misogyny
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Online misogyny, a category of online abusive language, has serious and harmful social consequences.
• DALC: the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  As socially unacceptable language become pervasive in social media platforms, the need for automatic content moderation become more pressing.
• Fine-Grained Fairness Analysis of Abusive Language Detection Systems with CheckList
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Our evaluation shows that, although BERT-based classifiers achieve high accuracy levels on a variety of natural language processing tasks, they perform very poorly as regards fairness and bias, in particular on samples…
• Targets and Aspects in Social Media Hate Speech
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Mainstream research on hate speech focused so far predominantly on the task of classifying mainly social media posts with respect to predefined typologies of rather coarse-grained hate speech categories.
• Abusive Language on Social Media Through the Legal Looking Glass
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  These standards include definitions of what is considered abusive language, annotation guidelines and reporting on the process.

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