Machine Translation Weekly 78: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection
This week I will comment on a preprint Cross-lingual hate speech detection based on multilingual domain-specific word embeddings by authors from the University of Chile. The pre-print evaluates the possibility of cross-lingual transfer of models for hate speech detection, i.e., training a model in one language and testing it in a different language. Hate speech detection is a particularly tough task for model transfer because many of the words have a different meaning or at least different connotations when used […]
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