Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection with Weakly Supervised Causal Disentanglement

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Main Authors: Sheth, Paras, Kumarage, Tharindu, Moraffah, Raha, Chadha, Aman, Liu, Huan
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author Sheth, Paras
Kumarage, Tharindu
Moraffah, Raha
Chadha, Aman
Liu, Huan
author_facet Sheth, Paras
Kumarage, Tharindu
Moraffah, Raha
Chadha, Aman
Liu, Huan
contents Content moderation faces a challenging task as social media's ability to spread hate speech contrasts with its role in promoting global connectivity. With rapidly evolving slang and hate speech, the adaptability of conventional deep learning to the fluid landscape of online dialogue remains limited. In response, causality inspired disentanglement has shown promise by segregating platform specific peculiarities from universal hate indicators. However, its dependency on available ground truth target labels for discerning these nuances faces practical hurdles with the incessant evolution of platforms and the mutable nature of hate speech. Using confidence based reweighting and contrastive regularization, this study presents HATE WATCH, a novel framework of weakly supervised causal disentanglement that circumvents the need for explicit target labeling and effectively disentangles input features into invariant representations of hate. Empirical validation across platforms two with target labels and two without positions HATE WATCH as a novel method in cross platform hate speech detection with superior performance. HATE WATCH advances scalable content moderation techniques towards developing safer online communities.
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spellingShingle Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection with Weakly Supervised Causal Disentanglement
Sheth, Paras
Kumarage, Tharindu
Moraffah, Raha
Chadha, Aman
Liu, Huan
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Content moderation faces a challenging task as social media's ability to spread hate speech contrasts with its role in promoting global connectivity. With rapidly evolving slang and hate speech, the adaptability of conventional deep learning to the fluid landscape of online dialogue remains limited. In response, causality inspired disentanglement has shown promise by segregating platform specific peculiarities from universal hate indicators. However, its dependency on available ground truth target labels for discerning these nuances faces practical hurdles with the incessant evolution of platforms and the mutable nature of hate speech. Using confidence based reweighting and contrastive regularization, this study presents HATE WATCH, a novel framework of weakly supervised causal disentanglement that circumvents the need for explicit target labeling and effectively disentangles input features into invariant representations of hate. Empirical validation across platforms two with target labels and two without positions HATE WATCH as a novel method in cross platform hate speech detection with superior performance. HATE WATCH advances scalable content moderation techniques towards developing safer online communities.
title Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection with Weakly Supervised Causal Disentanglement
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11036