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Main Authors: Krejca, Felix, Kietreiber, Tobias, Buchelt, Alexander, Neumaier, Sebastian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20963
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author Krejca, Felix
Kietreiber, Tobias
Buchelt, Alexander
Neumaier, Sebastian
author_facet Krejca, Felix
Kietreiber, Tobias
Buchelt, Alexander
Neumaier, Sebastian
contents The increasing volume of online discussions requires advanced automatic content moderation to maintain responsible discourse. While hate speech detection on social media is well-studied, research on German-language newspaper forums remains limited. Existing studies often neglect platform-specific context, such as user history and article themes. This paper addresses this gap by developing and evaluating binary classification models for automatic content moderation in German newspaper forums, incorporating contextual information. Using LSTM, CNN, and ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo, and leveraging the One Million Posts Corpus from the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, we assess the impact of context-aware models. Results show that CNN and LSTM models benefit from contextual information and perform competitively with state-of-the-art approaches. In contrast, ChatGPT's zero-shot classification does not improve with added context and underperforms.
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spellingShingle Context-Aware Content Moderation for German Newspaper Comments
Krejca, Felix
Kietreiber, Tobias
Buchelt, Alexander
Neumaier, Sebastian
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The increasing volume of online discussions requires advanced automatic content moderation to maintain responsible discourse. While hate speech detection on social media is well-studied, research on German-language newspaper forums remains limited. Existing studies often neglect platform-specific context, such as user history and article themes. This paper addresses this gap by developing and evaluating binary classification models for automatic content moderation in German newspaper forums, incorporating contextual information. Using LSTM, CNN, and ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo, and leveraging the One Million Posts Corpus from the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, we assess the impact of context-aware models. Results show that CNN and LSTM models benefit from contextual information and perform competitively with state-of-the-art approaches. In contrast, ChatGPT's zero-shot classification does not improve with added context and underperforms.
title Context-Aware Content Moderation for German Newspaper Comments
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20963