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most citedHate Speech Detection and Racial Bias Mitigation in Social Media based on BERT model

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cs.CL2026

PTEI: Integrating Personality Traits to Enhance Emotional Intelligence in Large Language Models

Amir Reza Jafari, Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh +1

Despite advances in Emotional Intelligence (EI), Large Language Models (LLMs) still significantly underperform humans in complex emotional reasoning. This gap originates partly fro…

cs.CL2025

Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on Billboard Charts

Aditya Narayan Sankaran, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

Code switching, particularly between Korean and English, has become a defining feature of modern K-pop, reflecting both aesthetic choices and global market strategies. This paper i…

cs.CL2024

Evading Toxicity Detection with ASCII-art: A Benchmark of Spatial Attacks on Moderation Systems

Sergey Berezin, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

We introduce a novel class of adversarial attacks on toxicity detection models that exploit language models' failure to interpret spatially structured text in the form of ASCII art…

cs.CL2023

No offence, Bert -- I insult only humans! Multiple addressees sentence-level attack on toxicity detection neural network

Sergey Berezin, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

We introduce a simple yet efficient sentence-level attack on black-box toxicity detector models. By adding several positive words or sentences to the end of a hateful message, we a…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

On the definition of toxicity in NLP

Sergey Berezin, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

The fundamental problem in toxicity detection task lies in the fact that the toxicity is ill-defined. This causes us to rely on subjective and vague data in models' training, which…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using an Emotion-aware Shared Encoder

Khouloud Mnassri, Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh +1

The rise of emergence of social media platforms has fundamentally altered how people communicate, and among the results of these developments is an increase in online use of abusiv…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

BERT-based Ensemble Approaches for Hate Speech Detection

Khouloud Mnassri, Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh +1

With the freedom of communication provided in online social media, hate speech has increasingly generated. This leads to cyber conflicts affecting social life at the individual and…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Transfer Learning for Multi-lingual Tasks -- a Survey

Amir Reza Jafari, Behnam Heidary, Reza Farahbakhsh +2

These days different platforms such as social media provide their clients from different backgrounds and languages the possibility to connect and exchange information. It is not su…