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Hate Speech Detection in Turkish and Arabic: A Comprehensive Study

arXiv:2607. 00143v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Online hate speech has been linked to a global rise in violence against minorities, including incidents such as mass shootings, lynchings, and ethnic cleansing.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

Training-Time Explainability for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection: Aligning Model Reasoning with Human Rationales

The paper proposes a training‑time explainability framework that aligns model reasoning with human‑annotated rationales to improve both classification performance and interpretability for multilingual hate speech detection. It is evaluated on HateXplain (English) and BullySent (Hinglish), datasets that capture anti‑Muslim hate in culturally coded, multilingual forms. Using methods such as LIME, Integrated Gradients, Grad‑X‑Input, and attention, the study shows that gradient‑ and attention‑based regularization boosts F‑scores, enhances plausibility and faithfulness, and captures culturally specific cues for detecting implicit anti‑Muslim hate.

By Muhammad Deedahwar Mazhar Qureshi, Sannaan Khan, Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Wael Rashwan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes

Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implicit targets. While hateful meme detection has advanced in high-resource languages, Arabic remains underexplored, with existing meme resources focusing mainly on propaganda or coarse harmful-content labels.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

Beyond Accuracy: A Qualitative Analysis of Vision-Language Models for Hate Speech Detection in Memes

The paper examines how four leading vision‑language models—LLaVA‑7B, Qwen‑VL, GPT‑4o mini, and Claude 3 Haiku—perform in detecting hateful content within memes. It evaluates the models under zero‑shot and few‑shot prompting, focusing not only on classification accuracy but also on the qualitative justifications they generate. The study highlights that these models often overlook contextual nuances, irony, and subtle cues essential for accurately identifying hate speech in memes.

By Muhammad Jawad Chowdhury, Adiba Hasan, Ishrak Hossain, Shahriar Ivan, Sabbir Ahmed
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

MexHat: A Dataset for Hate Speech Detection in Mexican Spanish Videos

MexHat is a newly released video dataset aimed at improving hate‑speech detection in Mexican Spanish. It contains roughly 1,000 clips annotated for three broad categories—no negative content, offensive content, and hate‑speech—as well as a finer classification into three hate‑speech sub‑categories. The paper presents dataset statistics and baseline results, underscoring the challenges of detecting culturally and contextually nuanced hate speech in multimodal content.

By Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, Hugo Jair Escalante
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

Sledgehammer or Scalpel? A Fine-grained Adaptive Framework for Implicit Hate Speech

The paper introduces FAID, a fine‑grained adaptive framework for detecting implicit hate speech. It first classifies samples into Shallow, Targeted, or Context‑Dependent categories and then applies tailored strategies—prompt‑tuning for shallow cases, knowledge augmentation for targeted ones, and an agentic prompt‑generation system for context‑dependent posts. Experiments on four benchmark datasets show that FAID outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines by allocating computational effort only where needed.

By Han Wang, Yuhu Cheng, Xuesong Wang, Yi Zhu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

When Hate Meets Facts: LLMs-in-the-Loop for Check-worthiness Detection in Hate Speech

The paper introduces WSF-ARG+, a new dataset that pairs hate speech with check‑worthiness annotations, and presents an LLM‑in‑the‑loop framework to streamline the annotation process. Experiments with 12 open‑weight large language models demonstrate that the framework cuts human effort while maintaining annotation quality. The study also shows that incorporating check‑worthiness labels improves hate‑speech detection performance, boosting macro‑F1 scores for large models by up to 0.213 and averaging 0.154 across models.

By Nicol\'as Benjam\'in Ocampo, Tommaso Caselli, Davide Ceolin
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Leveraging LLMs for Context-Aware Implicit Textual and Multimodal Hate Speech Detection

The paper explores using a large language model (LLM) to generate background context for social media posts and tests four ways to integrate this context into a Sentence-BERT (SBERT) hate‑speech detection classifier. The methods include text concatenation, embedding concatenation, hierarchical transformer fusion, and LLM‑driven text enhancement. Experiments on the Latent Hatred dataset of implicitly hateful tweets and the MAMI dataset of misogynous memes show that adding generated context can raise F1 scores by up to 3 points in textual and 6 points in multimodal settings compared to a zero‑context baseline, with embedding concatenation yielding the best results.

By Joshua Wolfe Brook, Ilia Markov