Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains
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| author | Korre, Katerina Muti, Arianna Ruggeri, Federico Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto |
| author_facet | Korre, Katerina Muti, Arianna Ruggeri, Federico Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto |
| contents | Hate speech relies heavily on cultural influences, leading to varying individual interpretations. For that reason, we propose a Semantic Componential Analysis (SCA) framework for a cross-cultural and cross-domain analysis of hate speech definitions. We create the first dataset of hate speech definitions encompassing 493 definitions from more than 100 cultures, drawn from five key domains: online dictionaries, academic research, Wikipedia, legal texts, and online platforms. By decomposing these definitions into semantic components, our analysis reveals significant variation across definitions, yet many domains borrow definitions from one another without taking into account the target culture. We conduct zero-shot model experiments using our proposed dataset, employing three popular open-sourced LLMs to understand the impact of different definitions on hate speech detection. Our findings indicate that LLMs are sensitive to definitions: responses for hate speech detection change according to the complexity of definitions used in the prompt. |
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| spellingShingle | Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains Korre, Katerina Muti, Arianna Ruggeri, Federico Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto Computation and Language Hate speech relies heavily on cultural influences, leading to varying individual interpretations. For that reason, we propose a Semantic Componential Analysis (SCA) framework for a cross-cultural and cross-domain analysis of hate speech definitions. We create the first dataset of hate speech definitions encompassing 493 definitions from more than 100 cultures, drawn from five key domains: online dictionaries, academic research, Wikipedia, legal texts, and online platforms. By decomposing these definitions into semantic components, our analysis reveals significant variation across definitions, yet many domains borrow definitions from one another without taking into account the target culture. We conduct zero-shot model experiments using our proposed dataset, employing three popular open-sourced LLMs to understand the impact of different definitions on hate speech detection. Our findings indicate that LLMs are sensitive to definitions: responses for hate speech detection change according to the complexity of definitions used in the prompt. |
| title | Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07417 |