NaijaHate: Evaluating Hate Speech Detection on Nigerian Twitter Using Representative Data

arXiv:2403.19260v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: To address the global issue of hateful content proliferating in online platforms, hate speech detection (HSD) models are typically developed on datasets collected in the United States, thereby failing to generalize to English dialects from the Majority World. Furthermore, HSD models are often evaluated on curated samples, raising concerns about overestimating model performance in real-world settings. In this work, we introduce NaijaHate, the first dataset annotated for HSD which contains a representative sample of Nigerian …

abstract arxiv cs.cl data datasets detection english global hate speech hate speech detection issue online platforms platforms speech twitter type united united states world