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Hate Speech Classifiers Learn Normative Social Stereotypes

delete2023-03-22
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Aida Mostafazadeh Davani *
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Mohammad Atari
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Brendan Kennedy
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Morteza Dehghani
DOI:10.1162/tacl_a_00550delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Social stereotypes negatively impact individuals' judgments about different groups and may have a critical role in understanding language directed toward marginalized groups. Here, we assess the role of social stereotypes in the automated detection of hate speech in the English language by examining the impact of social stereotypes on annotation behaviors, annotated datasets, and hate speech classifiers. Specifically, we first investigate the impact of novice annotators' stereotypes on their hate-speech-annotation behavior. Then, we examine the effect of normative stereotypes in language on the aggregated annotators' judgments in a large annotated corpus. Finally, we demonstrate how normative stereotypes embedded in language resources are associated with systematic prediction errors in a hate-speech classifier. The results demonstrate that hate-speech classifiers reflect social stereotypes against marginalized groups, which can perpetuate social inequalities when propagated at scale. This framework, combining social-psychological and computational-linguistic methods, provides insights into sources of bias in hate-speech moderation, informing ongoing debates regarding machine learning fairness.
Keywords:
MODEL
BIAS
COMPETENCE
WARMTH
RACISM

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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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university of southern california
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