A joint learning approach with knowledge injection for zero-shot cross-lingual hate speech detection

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Highlights:

• We propose a joint-learning architecture for cross-lingual hate speech detection.

• Our zero-shot approach transfers knowledge between different languages.

• We leverage one resource-rich language to inform models for lower-resource ones.

• We experiment on six lower-resource target languages.

• We experiment with three different multilingual language representation models.

• We investigate the impact of an external resource for knowledge transfer.

• We investigate the creative use of language conveying a derogatory meaning.

摘要

•We propose a joint-learning architecture for cross-lingual hate speech detection.•Our zero-shot approach transfers knowledge between different languages.•We leverage one resource-rich language to inform models for lower-resource ones.•We experiment on six lower-resource target languages.•We experiment with three different multilingual language representation models.•We investigate the impact of an external resource for knowledge transfer.•We investigate the creative use of language conveying a derogatory meaning.

论文关键词:Hate speech detection,Cross-lingual classification,Social media,Transfer learning,Zero-shot learning

论文评审过程:Received 1 November 2020, Revised 23 December 2020, Accepted 7 February 2021, Available online 1 March 2021, Version of Record 1 March 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102544