6 papers
Beyond the Explicit: A Bilingual Dataset for Dehumanization Detection in Social Media
Dennis Assenmacher, Paloma Piot, Katarina Laken +2
Digital dehumanization, although a critical issue, remains largely overlooked within the field of computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The prevailing approach…
Learning from Convenience Samples: A Case Study on Fine-Tuning LLMs for Survey Non-response in the German Longitudinal Election Study
Tobias Holtdirk, Dennis Assenmacher, Arnim Bleier +1
Survey researchers face two key challenges: the rising costs of probability samples and missing data (e.g., non-response or attrition), which can undermine inference and increase t…
A Modular Taxonomy for Hate Speech Definitions and Its Impact on Zero-Shot LLM Classification Performance
Matteo Melis, Gabriella Lapesa, Dennis Assenmacher
Detecting harmful content is a crucial task in the landscape of NLP applications for Social Good, with hate speech being one of its most dangerous forms. But what do we mean by hat…
Personas with Attitudes: Controlling LLMs for Diverse Data Annotation
Leon Fröhling, Gianluca Demartini, Dennis Assenmacher
We present a novel approach for enhancing diversity and control in data annotation tasks by personalizing large language models (LLMs). We investigate the impact of injecting diver…
Sexism Detection on a Data Diet
Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay, Dennis Assenmacher, Jose M. Alonso Moral +1
There is an increase in the proliferation of online hate commensurate with the rise in the usage of social media. In response, there is also a significant advancement in the creati…
The Unseen Targets of Hate -- A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets
Zehui Yu, Indira Sen, Dennis Assenmacher +5
Machine learning (ML)-based content moderation tools are essential to keep online spaces free from hateful communication. Yet, ML tools can only be as capable as the quality of the…