NaijaHate: Evaluating Hate Speech Detection on Nigerian Twitter Using Representative Data

1 code implementation • 28 Mar 2024 • Manuel Tonneau, Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Karim Lasri, Ibrahim Farouq, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Samuel Fraiberger

To address the global issue of hateful content proliferating in online platforms, hate speech detection (HSD) models are typically developed on datasets collected in the United States, thereby failing to generalize to English dialects from the Majority World.

Hate Speech Detection