ToKen: Task Decomposition and Knowledge Infusion for Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection
Badr AlKhamissi, Faisal Ladhak, Srinivasan Iyer, Veselin Stoyanov, Zornitsa Kozareva, Xian Li, Pascale Fung, Lambert Mathias
Abstract
Hate speech detection is complex; it relies on commonsense reasoning, knowledge of stereotypes, and an understanding of social nuance that differs from one culture to the next. It is also difficult to collect a large-scale hate speech annotated dataset. In this work, we frame this problem as a few-shot learning task, and show significant gains with decomposing the task into its “constituent” parts. In addition, we see that infusing knowledge from reasoning datasets (e.g. ATOMIC2020) improves the performance even further. Moreover, we observe that the trained models generalize to out-of-distribution datasets, showing the superiority of task decomposition and knowledge infusion compared to previously used methods. Concretely, our method outperforms the baseline by 17.83% absolute gain in the 16-shot case.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{alkhamissi-etal-2022-token,
title = "{T}o{K}en: Task Decomposition and Knowledge Infusion for Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection",
author = "AlKhamissi, Badr and
Ladhak, Faisal and
Iyer, Srinivasan and
Stoyanov, Veselin and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Li, Xian and
Fung, Pascale and
Mathias, Lambert and
Celikyilmaz, Asli and
Diab, Mona",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.136/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.136",
pages = "2109--2120"
}