4 papers
IYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects
Christine de Kock, Arij Riabi, Zeerak Talat +3
Extremist groups develop complex in-group language, also referred to as cryptolects, to exclude or mislead outsiders. We investigate the ability of current language technologies to…
Can Character-based Language Models Improve Downstream Task Performance in Low-Resource and Noisy Language Scenarios?
Arij Riabi, Benoît Sagot, Djamé Seddah
Recent impressive improvements in NLP, largely based on the success of contextual neural language models, have been mostly demonstrated on at most a couple dozen high-resource lang…
Beyond Dataset Creation: Critical View of Annotation Variation and Bias Probing of a Dataset for Online Radical Content Detection
Arij Riabi, Virginie Mouilleron, Menel Mahamdi +2
The proliferation of radical content on online platforms poses significant risks, including inciting violence and spreading extremist ideologies. Despite ongoing research, existing…
Common Ground, Diverse Roots: The Difficulty of Classifying Common Examples in Spanish Varieties
Javier A. Lopetegui, Arij Riabi, Djamé Seddah
Variations in languages across geographic regions or cultures are crucial to address to avoid biases in NLP systems designed for culturally sensitive tasks, such as hate speech det…