Low-Resource Counterspeech Generation for Indic Languages: The Case of Bengali and Hindi
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| author | Das, Mithun Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Sethi, Shivansh Saha, Punyajoy Mukherjee, Animesh |
| author_facet | Das, Mithun Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Sethi, Shivansh Saha, Punyajoy Mukherjee, Animesh |
| contents | With the rise of online abuse, the NLP community has begun investigating the use of neural architectures to generate counterspeech that can "counter" the vicious tone of such abusive speech and dilute/ameliorate their rippling effect over the social network. However, most of the efforts so far have been primarily focused on English. To bridge the gap for low-resource languages such as Bengali and Hindi, we create a benchmark dataset of 5,062 abusive speech/counterspeech pairs, of which 2,460 pairs are in Bengali and 2,602 pairs are in Hindi. We implement several baseline models considering various interlingual transfer mechanisms with different configurations to generate suitable counterspeech to set up an effective benchmark. We observe that the monolingual setup yields the best performance. Further, using synthetic transfer, language models can generate counterspeech to some extent; specifically, we notice that transferability is better when languages belong to the same language family. |
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| spellingShingle | Low-Resource Counterspeech Generation for Indic Languages: The Case of Bengali and Hindi Das, Mithun Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Sethi, Shivansh Saha, Punyajoy Mukherjee, Animesh Computation and Language Human-Computer Interaction With the rise of online abuse, the NLP community has begun investigating the use of neural architectures to generate counterspeech that can "counter" the vicious tone of such abusive speech and dilute/ameliorate their rippling effect over the social network. However, most of the efforts so far have been primarily focused on English. To bridge the gap for low-resource languages such as Bengali and Hindi, we create a benchmark dataset of 5,062 abusive speech/counterspeech pairs, of which 2,460 pairs are in Bengali and 2,602 pairs are in Hindi. We implement several baseline models considering various interlingual transfer mechanisms with different configurations to generate suitable counterspeech to set up an effective benchmark. We observe that the monolingual setup yields the best performance. Further, using synthetic transfer, language models can generate counterspeech to some extent; specifically, we notice that transferability is better when languages belong to the same language family. |
| title | Low-Resource Counterspeech Generation for Indic Languages: The Case of Bengali and Hindi |
| topic | Computation and Language Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07262 |