Killing me softly: Creative and cognitive aspects of implicitness in abusive language online
| Autor: | Simona Frenda, Viviana Patti, Paolo Rosso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Natural Language Engineering. :1-22 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8110 1351-3249 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1351324922000316 |
| Popis: | Abusive language is becoming a problematic issue for our society. The spread of messages that reinforce social and cultural intolerance could have dangerous effects in victims’ life. State-of-the-art technologies are often effective on detecting explicit forms of abuse, leaving unidentified the utterances with very weak offensive language but a strong hurtful effect. Scholars have advanced theoretical and qualitative observations on specific indirect forms of abusive language that make it hard to be recognized automatically. In this work, we propose a battery of statistical and computational analyses able to support these considerations, with a focus on creative and cognitive aspects of the implicitness, in texts coming from different sources such as social media and news. We experiment with transformers, multi-task learning technique, and a set of linguistic features to reveal the elements involved in the implicit and explicit manifestations of abuses, providing a solid basis for computational applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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