Arhnet-leveraging community interaction for detection of religious hate speech in arabic
Published in ACL - Student Research Workshop, 2019
Recommended citation: Chowdhury, Arijit Ghosh, Aniket Didolkar, Ramit Sawhney, and Rajiv Shah. "Arhnet-leveraging community interaction for detection of religious hate speech in arabic." In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pp. 273-280. 2019. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-2038.pdf
The rapid widespread of social media has lead to some undesirable consequences like the rapid increase of hateful content and offensive language. Religious Hate Speech, in particular, often leads to unrest and sometimes aggravates to violence against people on the basis of their religious affiliations. The richness of the Arabic morphology and the limited available resources makes this task especially challenging. The current state-of-the-art approaches to detect hate speech in Arabic rely entirely on textual (lexical and semantic) cues. Our proposed methodology contends that leveraging Community-Interaction can better help us profile hate speech content on social media. Our proposed ARHNet (Arabic Religious Hate Speech Net) model incorporates both Arabic Word Embeddings and Social Network Graphs for the detection of religious hate speech.
Chowdhury, Arijit Ghosh, Aniket Didolkar, Ramit Sawhney, and Rajiv Shah. “Arhnet-leveraging community interaction for detection of religious hate speech in arabic.” In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pp. 273-280. 2019.