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Unraveling Disagreement Constituents in Hateful Speech

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024)

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This paper presents a probabilistic semantic approach to identifying disagreement-related textual constituents in hateful content. Several methodologies to exploit the selected constituents to determine if a message could lead to disagreement have been defined. The proposed approach is evaluated on 4 datasets made available for the SemEval 2023 Task 11 shared task, highlighting that a few constituents can be used as a proxy to identify if a sentence could be perceived differently by multiple readers. The source code of our approaches is publicly available (https://github.com/MIND-Lab/Unrevealing-Disagreement-Constituents-in-Hateful-Speech).

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    The selected datasets contain information about the disagreement among annotators in the form of soft labels. Such agreement values have been transformed into boolean values to represent complete agreement and disagreement among the annotators.

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We acknowledge the support of the PNRR ICSC National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing (CN00000013), under the NRRP MUR program funded by the NextGenerationEU. The work of Paolo Rosso was in the framework of the FairTransNLP-Stereotypes research project (PID2021-124361OB-C31) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF, EU A way of making Europe.

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    Giulia Rizzi, Alessandro Astorino & Elisabetta Fersini

  2. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Giulia Rizzi & Paolo Rosso

  3. ValgrAI - Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, Spain

    Paolo Rosso

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Rizzi, G., Astorino, A., Rosso, P., Fersini, E. (2024). Unraveling Disagreement Constituents in Hateful Speech. In: Goharian, N., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_3

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