2026
X-MuTeST: A Multilingual Benchmark for Explainable Hate Speech Detection and a Novel LLM-Consulted Explanation Framework
Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Shashivardhan Reddy Koppula, Sai Rithwik Reddy Chirra, Shwetank Shekhar Singh, Nagendra Kumar
AAAI 2026technical
Hate speech detection on social media faces challenges in both accuracy and explainability, especially for underexplored Indic languages. We propose a novel explainability-guided training framework, X-MuTeST (eXplainable Multilingual haTe Speech deTection), for hate speech detection that combines hi