@inproceedings{rizzi-etal-2024-perspectives,
    title = "Perspectives on Hate: General vs. Domain-Specific Models",
    author = "Rizzi, Giulia  and
      Fontana, Michele  and
      Fersini, Elisabetta",
    editor = "Abercrombie, Gavin  and
      Basile, Valerio  and
      Bernadi, Davide  and
      Dudy, Shiran  and
      Frenda, Simona  and
      Havens, Lucy  and
      Tonelli, Sara",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlperspectives-1.8",
    pages = "78--83",
    abstract = "The rise of online hostility, combined with broad social media use, leads to the necessity of the comprehension of its human impact. However, the process of hate identification is challenging because, on the one hand, the line between healthy disagreement and poisonous speech is not well defined, and, on the other hand, multiple socio-cultural factors or prior beliefs shape people{'}s perceptions of potentially harmful text. To address disagreements in hate speech identification, Natural Language Processing (NLP) models must capture several perspectives. This paper introduces a strategy based on the Contrastive Learning paradigm for detecting disagreements in hate speech using pre-trained language models. Two approaches are proposed: the General Model, a comprehensive framework, and the Domain-Specific Model, which focuses on more specific hate-related tasks. The source code is available at ://anonymous.4open.science/r/Disagreement-530C.",
}

The rise of online hostility, combined with broad social media use, leads to the necessity of the comprehension of its human impact. However, the process of hate identification is challenging because, on the one hand, the line between healthy disagreement and poisonous speech is not well defined, and, on the other hand, multiple socio-cultural factors or prior beliefs shape people{'}s perceptions of potentially harmful text. To address disagreements in hate speech identification, Natural Language Processing (NLP) models must capture several perspectives. This paper introduces a strategy based on the Contrastive Learning paradigm for detecting disagreements in hate speech using pre-trained language models. Two approaches are proposed: the General Model, a comprehensive framework, and the Domain-Specific Model, which focuses on more specific hate-related tasks. The source code is available at ://anonymous.4open.science/r/Disagreement-530C.
Rizzi, Giulia Fontana, Michele Fersini, Elisabetta
Perspectives on Hate: General vs. Domain-Specific Models