HateModerate: Testing Hate Speech Detectors against Content Moderation Policies

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Autori principali: Zheng, Jiangrui, Liu, Xueqing, Yang, Guanqun, Haque, Mirazul, Qian, Xing, Rathnasuriya, Ravishka, Yang, Wei, Budhrani, Girish
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author Zheng, Jiangrui
Liu, Xueqing
Yang, Guanqun
Haque, Mirazul
Qian, Xing
Rathnasuriya, Ravishka
Yang, Wei
Budhrani, Girish
author_facet Zheng, Jiangrui
Liu, Xueqing
Yang, Guanqun
Haque, Mirazul
Qian, Xing
Rathnasuriya, Ravishka
Yang, Wei
Budhrani, Girish
contents To protect users from massive hateful content, existing works studied automated hate speech detection. Despite the existing efforts, one question remains: do automated hate speech detectors conform to social media content policies? A platform's content policies are a checklist of content moderated by the social media platform. Because content moderation rules are often uniquely defined, existing hate speech datasets cannot directly answer this question. This work seeks to answer this question by creating HateModerate, a dataset for testing the behaviors of automated content moderators against content policies. First, we engage 28 annotators and GPT in a six-step annotation process, resulting in a list of hateful and non-hateful test suites matching each of Facebook's 41 hate speech policies. Second, we test the performance of state-of-the-art hate speech detectors against HateModerate, revealing substantial failures these models have in their conformity to the policies. Third, using HateModerate, we augment the training data of a top-downloaded hate detector on HuggingFace. We observe significant improvement in the models' conformity to content policies while having comparable scores on the original test data. Our dataset and code can be found in the attachment.
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Zheng, Jiangrui
Liu, Xueqing
Yang, Guanqun
Haque, Mirazul
Qian, Xing
Rathnasuriya, Ravishka
Yang, Wei
Budhrani, Girish
Software Engineering
Computation and Language
To protect users from massive hateful content, existing works studied automated hate speech detection. Despite the existing efforts, one question remains: do automated hate speech detectors conform to social media content policies? A platform's content policies are a checklist of content moderated by the social media platform. Because content moderation rules are often uniquely defined, existing hate speech datasets cannot directly answer this question. This work seeks to answer this question by creating HateModerate, a dataset for testing the behaviors of automated content moderators against content policies. First, we engage 28 annotators and GPT in a six-step annotation process, resulting in a list of hateful and non-hateful test suites matching each of Facebook's 41 hate speech policies. Second, we test the performance of state-of-the-art hate speech detectors against HateModerate, revealing substantial failures these models have in their conformity to the policies. Third, using HateModerate, we augment the training data of a top-downloaded hate detector on HuggingFace. We observe significant improvement in the models' conformity to content policies while having comparable scores on the original test data. Our dataset and code can be found in the attachment.
title HateModerate: Testing Hate Speech Detectors against Content Moderation Policies
topic Software Engineering
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12418