Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster
in
Workshop: DMLR Workshop: Data-centric Machine Learning Research

THOS: A Benchmark Dataset for Targeted Hate and Offensive Speech

Saad Almohaimeed · Saleh Almohaimeed · Saleh Almohaimeed · Ashfaq Ali Shafin · Bogdan Carbunar · Ladislau Boloni


Abstract:

Detecting harmful content on social media, such as Twitter, is made difficult by the fact that the seemingly simple yes/no classification conceals a significant amount of complexity.Unfortunately, while several datasets have been collected for training classifiers in hate and offensive speech, there is a scarcity of datasets labeled with a finer granularity of target classes and specific targets. In this paper, we introduce THOS, a dataset of 8.3k tweets manually labeled with fine-grained annotations about the target of the message. We demonstrate that this dataset makes it feasible to train classifiers, based on Large Language Models, to perform classification at this level of granularity.

Chat is not available.