2023.acl-short.17@ACL

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#1 A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi2]

Authors: Michael Yoder ; Ahmad Diab ; David Brown ; Kathleen Carley

We present a dataset and classifier for detecting the language of white supremacist extremism, a growing issue in online hate speech. Our weakly supervised classifier is trained on large datasets of text from explicitly white supremacist domains paired with neutral and anti-racist data from similar domains. We demonstrate that this approach improves generalization performance to new domains. Incorporating anti-racist texts as counterexamples to white supremacist language mitigates bias.