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Multilingual Twitter Corpus and Baselines for Evaluating Demographic Bias in Hate Speech Recognition

LREC 2020

Publication date: May 12, 2020

Xiaolei Huang, Linzi Xing, Michael J. Paul, Franck Dernoncourt

Existing research on fairness evaluation of document classification models mainly use synthetic monolingual data without ground truth in author demographic attributes. In this work, we assemble and publish a multilingual Twitter corpus of hate speech detection task with inferred four author demographic factors: race/ethnicity, gender, age and country. The corpus covers five languages, English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. We evaluate the inferred demographic labels by a crowdsourcing platform, Figure Eight. We measure performance of four popular document classifiers and evaluate the fairness and bias of the baseline classifiers on the author-level demographic attributes.

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