Exploring Portuguese Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Settings: Lightly Tuning Encoder Models or In-Context Learning of Large Models?

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Explorando Técnicas de Aprendizado em Modelos de Linguagem para Classificação de Discurso de Ódio e Ofensivo em Português

This repository contains the code and results from the PROPOR 2024 paper, Exploring Portuguese Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Settings: Lightly Tuning Encoder Models or In-Context Learning of Large Models?, and its extended version, published in LinguaMÁTICA, titled Explorando Técnicas de Aprendizado em Modelos de Linguagem para Classificação de Discurso de Ódio e Ofensivo em Português.

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CITING

Gabriel Assis, Annie Amorim, Jonnatahn Carvalho, Daniel de Oliveira, Daniela Vianna, and Aline Paes. 2024. Exploring Portuguese Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Settings: Lightly Tuning Encoder Models or In-Context Learning of Large Models?. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, pages 301–311, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia/Spain. Association for Computational Lingustics.

Assis, G., Amorim, A., Carvalho, J., Ferro, M., de Oliveira, D., Vianna, D., & Paes, A. (2024). Explorando Técnicas de Aprendizado em Modelos de Linguagem para Classificação de Discurso de Ódio e Ofensivo em Português. Linguamática, 16(2). Obtido de https://linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/446

BIBTEX

@inproceedings{assis-etal-2024-exploring,
    title = "Exploring {P}ortuguese {H}ate {S}peech {D}etection in {L}ow-{R}esource {S}ettings:
             {L}ightly {T}uning {E}ncoder {M}odels or {I}n-{C}ontext {L}earning of {L}arge {M}odels?",  
    author = "Assis, Gabriel  and  
      Amorim, Annie  and  
      Carvalho, Jonnathan  and  
      de Oliveira, Daniel  and  
      Vianna, Daniela  and  
      Paes, Aline",  
    editor = "Gamallo, Pablo  and  
      Claro, Daniela  and  
      Teixeira, Ant{\'o}nio  and  
      Real, Livy  and  
      Garcia, Marcos  and  
      Oliveira, Hugo Gon{\c{c}}alo  and  
      Amaro, Raquel",  
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese",  
    month = mar,  
    year = "2024",  
    address = "Santiago de Compostela, Galicia/Spain",  
    publisher = "Association for Computational Lingustics",  
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.propor-1.31",  
    pages = "301--311" 
}

@article{Assis_etal_2024,  
  title  = "Explorando Técnicas de Aprendizado em Modelos de Linguagem
            para Classificação de Discurso de Ódio e Ofensivo em Português",  
  author  = "  
    Assis, Gabriel and  
    Amorim, Annie and  
    Carvalho, Jonnathan and  
    Ferro, Mariza and  
    de Oliveira, Daniel and  
    Vianna, Daniela and  
    Paes, Aline  
  ",  
  journal = "Linguamática",  
  volume  = "16",  
  number = "2",  
  year = "2024",  
  month  = "December",  
  url = "https://linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/446"  
}

FUNDING

This research was financed by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), grants 307088/2023-5 and 315750/2021-9, and FAPERJ (Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), processes SEI-260003/002930/2024, SEI-260003/000614/2023, SEI-260003/006057/2024, and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. The research also benefited from the Google Cloud Research Credits program, under code GCP19980904, and the Maritaca AI credits program.