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Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection: A Comparative Study
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Automated hate speech detection is an important tool in combating the spread of hate speech, particularly in social media. Numerous methods have been developed for the task, including a recent proliferation of deep-learning based approaches. A variety of datasets have also been developed, exemplifying various manifestations of the hate-speech detection problem. We present here a large-scale empirical comparison of deep and shallow hate-speech detection methods, mediated through the three most commonly used datasets. Our goal is to illuminate progress in the area, and identify strengths and weaknesses in the current state-of-the-art. We particularly focus our analysis on measures of practical performance, including detection accuracy, computational efficiency, capability in using pre-trained models, and domain generalization. In doing so we aim to provide guidance as to the use of hate-speech detection in practice, quantify the state-of-the-art, and identify future research directions. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/jmjmalik22/Hate-Speech-Detection.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, and 6 tables
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2202.09517
- Document Type :
- Working Paper