Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora

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Main Authors: Dementieva, Daryna, Babakov, Nikolay, Ronen, Amit, Ayele, Abinew Ali, Rizwan, Naquee, Schneider, Florian, Wang, Xintong, Yimam, Seid Muhie, Moskovskiy, Daniil, Stakovskii, Elisei, Kaufman, Eran, Elnagar, Ashraf, Mukherjee, Animesh, Panchenko, Alexander
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author Dementieva, Daryna
Babakov, Nikolay
Ronen, Amit
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Rizwan, Naquee
Schneider, Florian
Wang, Xintong
Yimam, Seid Muhie
Moskovskiy, Daniil
Stakovskii, Elisei
Kaufman, Eran
Elnagar, Ashraf
Mukherjee, Animesh
Panchenko, Alexander
author_facet Dementieva, Daryna
Babakov, Nikolay
Ronen, Amit
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Rizwan, Naquee
Schneider, Florian
Wang, Xintong
Yimam, Seid Muhie
Moskovskiy, Daniil
Stakovskii, Elisei
Kaufman, Eran
Elnagar, Ashraf
Mukherjee, Animesh
Panchenko, Alexander
contents Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022, digital abusive speech remains a significant issue. One potential approach to address this challenge is automatic text detoxification, a text style transfer (TST) approach that transforms toxic language into a more neutral or non-toxic form. To date, the availability of parallel corpora for the text detoxification task (Logachevavet al., 2022; Atwell et al., 2022; Dementievavet al., 2024a) has proven to be crucial for state-of-the-art approaches. With this work, we extend parallel text detoxification corpus to new languages -- German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Amharic -- testing in the extensive multilingual setup TST baselines. Next, we conduct the first of its kind an automated, explainable analysis of the descriptive features of both toxic and non-toxic sentences, diving deeply into the nuances, similarities, and differences of toxicity and detoxification across 9 languages. Finally, based on the obtained insights, we experiment with a novel text detoxification method inspired by the Chain-of-Thoughts reasoning approach, enhancing the prompting process through clustering on relevant descriptive attributes.
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spellingShingle Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora
Dementieva, Daryna
Babakov, Nikolay
Ronen, Amit
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Rizwan, Naquee
Schneider, Florian
Wang, Xintong
Yimam, Seid Muhie
Moskovskiy, Daniil
Stakovskii, Elisei
Kaufman, Eran
Elnagar, Ashraf
Mukherjee, Animesh
Panchenko, Alexander
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022, digital abusive speech remains a significant issue. One potential approach to address this challenge is automatic text detoxification, a text style transfer (TST) approach that transforms toxic language into a more neutral or non-toxic form. To date, the availability of parallel corpora for the text detoxification task (Logachevavet al., 2022; Atwell et al., 2022; Dementievavet al., 2024a) has proven to be crucial for state-of-the-art approaches. With this work, we extend parallel text detoxification corpus to new languages -- German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Amharic -- testing in the extensive multilingual setup TST baselines. Next, we conduct the first of its kind an automated, explainable analysis of the descriptive features of both toxic and non-toxic sentences, diving deeply into the nuances, similarities, and differences of toxicity and detoxification across 9 languages. Finally, based on the obtained insights, we experiment with a novel text detoxification method inspired by the Chain-of-Thoughts reasoning approach, enhancing the prompting process through clustering on relevant descriptive attributes.
title Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11691