Factoring Hate Speech: A New Annotation Framework to Study Hate Speech in Social Media

Gal Ron, Effi Levi, Odelia Oshri, Shaul Shenhav

The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) Short paper Paper

TLDR: In this work we propose a novel annotation scheme which factors hate speech into five separate discursive categories. To evaluate our scheme, we construct a corpus of over 2.9M Twitter posts containing hateful expressions directed at Jews, and annotate a sample dataset of 1,050 tweets. We present a
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Abstract: In this work we propose a novel annotation scheme which factors hate speech into five separate discursive categories. To evaluate our scheme, we construct a corpus of over 2.9M Twitter posts containing hateful expressions directed at Jews, and annotate a sample dataset of 1,050 tweets. We present a statistical analysis of the annotated dataset as well as discuss annotation examples, and conclude by discussing promising directions for future work.