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Cross-Domain Toxic Spans Detection

Authors :
Schouten, Stefan F.
Barbarestani, Baran
Tufa, Wondimagegnhue
Vossen, Piek
Markov, Ilia
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Given the dynamic nature of toxic language use, automated methods for detecting toxic spans are likely to encounter distributional shift. To explore this phenomenon, we evaluate three approaches for detecting toxic spans under cross-domain conditions: lexicon-based, rationale extraction, and fine-tuned language models. Our findings indicate that a simple method using off-the-shelf lexicons performs best in the cross-domain setup. The cross-domain error analysis suggests that (1) rationale extraction methods are prone to false negatives, while (2) language models, despite performing best for the in-domain case, recall fewer explicitly toxic words than lexicons and are prone to certain types of false positives. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/sfschouten/toxic-cross-domain.<br />Comment: NLDB 2023

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2306.09642
Document Type :
Working Paper