A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language

Michael Yoder, Ahmad Diab, David Brown, Kathleen Carley


Abstract
We present a dataset and classifier for detecting the language of white supremacist extremism, a growing issue in online hate speech. Our weakly supervised classifier is trained on large datasets of text from explicitly white supremacist domains paired with neutral and anti-racist data from similar domains. We demonstrate that this approach improves generalization performance to new domains. Incorporating anti-racist texts as counterexamples to white supremacist language mitigates bias.
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2023.acl-short.17
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2023.acl-short.17v1
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2023.acl-short.17v2
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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172–185
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.17
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.17
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Michael Yoder, Ahmad Diab, David Brown, and Kathleen Carley. 2023. A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 172–185, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language (Yoder et al., ACL 2023)
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