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NLP Systems That Can't Tell Use from Mention Censor Counterspeech, but Teaching the Distinction Helps
April 3, 2024, 4:46 a.m. | Kristina Gligoric, Myra Cheng, Lucia Zheng, Esin Durmus, Dan Jurafsky
cs.CL updates on arXiv.org arxiv.org
Abstract: The use of words to convey speaker's intent is traditionally distinguished from the `mention' of words for quoting what someone said, or pointing out properties of a word. Here we show that computationally modeling this use-mention distinction is crucial for dealing with counterspeech online. Counterspeech that refutes problematic content often mentions harmful language but is not harmful itself (e.g., calling a vaccine dangerous is not the same as expressing disapproval of someone for calling vaccines …
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