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most citedMultilingual Auxiliary Tasks Training: Bridging the Gap between Languages for Zero-Shot Transfer of Hate Speech Detection Models

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cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024

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…

cs.CL2024

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…

cs.CL2024

Cloaked Classifiers: Pseudonymization Strategies on Sensitive Classification Tasks

Arij Riabi, Menel Mahamdi, Virginie Mouilleron +1

Protecting privacy is essential when sharing data, particularly in the case of an online radicalization dataset that may contain personal information. In this paper, we explore the…

cs.CL2023

Universal NER: A Gold-Standard Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Benchmark

Stephen Mayhew, Terra Blevins, Shuheng Liu +10

We introduce Universal NER (UNER), an open, community-driven project to develop gold-standard NER benchmarks in many languages. The overarching goal of UNER is to provide high-qual…

cs.CL2023

Enriching the NArabizi Treebank: A Multifaceted Approach to Supporting an Under-Resourced Language

Arij Riabi, Menel Mahamdi, Djamé Seddah

In this paper we address the scarcity of annotated data for NArabizi, a Romanized form of North African Arabic used mostly on social media, which poses challenges for Natural Langu…