O-Dang at HODI and HaSpeeDe3: A Knowledge-Enhanced Approach to Homotransphobia and Hate Speech Detection in Italian

Chiara Di Bonaventura*, Arianna Muti, Marco Antonio Stranisci

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Abstract

This paper describes our methods implemented during the EVALITA 2023 campaign for homotransphobia (HODI task) and hate speech detection (HaSpeeDe3 task) in Italian. We present three knowledge-enhanced approaches, namely via triple verbalisation, via prompting and via a majority vote, and we compare them to the AlBERTo baseline. These systems leverage the knowledge graph O-Dang, which contains information about named entities in Italian dangerous speech. Our knowledge-enhanced systems outperformed all the competition's baselines. Our best submissions achieved the macro-F1 score of 0.912 for HaSpeeDe3 and 0.795 for HODI, reaching the 1st and 3rd place, respectively. These results were achieved by using our baseline for HODI, and a majority voting approach for HaSpeeDe3.

Original languageEnglish
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume3473
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023
Event8th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop, EVALITA 2023 - Parma, Italy
Duration: 7 Sept 20238 Sept 2023

Keywords

  • data augmentation
  • entity linking
  • hate speech
  • knowledge graph
  • prompting
  • NLP

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