Challenges of Hate Speech Detection in Social Media Data Scarcity, and Leveraging External Resources

• Published in: SN computer science Vol. 2; no. 2
• Main Authors: Kovács, György, Alonso, Pedro, Saini, Rajkumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.04.2021
• Subjects: BERT; Computer Imaging; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Data Structures and Information Theory; Deep language processing; Hate speech; Information Systems and Communication Service; Machine Learning; Maskininlärning; Original Research; Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Social Media Analytics and its Evaluation; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Transfer learning; Vision; Vocabulary augmentation; Vocabulary augmentation; BERT; Hate speech; Transfer learning; Deep language processing

The detection of hate speech in social media is a crucial task. The uncontrolled spread of hate has the potential to gravely damage our society, and severely harm marginalized people or groups. A major arena for spreading hate speech online is social media. This significantly contributes to the diff...