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With the growth of social media, the spread of hate speech is also increasing rapidly. Social media are widely used in many countries. Also Hate Speech is spreading in these countries. This brings a need for multilingual Hate Speech detection algorithms. Much research in this area is dedicated to English at the moment. The HASOC track intends to provide a platform to develop and optimize Hate Speech detection algorithms for Hindi, German and English. The dataset is collected from a Twitter archive and pre-classified by a machine learning system. HASOC has two sub-task for all three languages: task A is a binary classification problem (Hate and Not Offensive) while task B is a fine-grained classification problem for three classes (HATE) Hate speech, OFFENSIVE and PROFANITY. Overall, 252 runs were submitted by 40 teams. The performance of the best classification algorithms for task A are F1 measures of 0.51, 0.53 and 0.52 for English, Hindi, and German, respectively. For task B, the best classification algorithms achieved F1 measures of 0.26, 0.33 and 0.29 for English, Hindi, and German, respectively. This article presents the tasks and the data development as well as the results. The best performing algorithms were mainly variants of the transformer architecture BERT. However, also other systems were applied with good success.

The widespread of offensive content online such as hate speech poses a growing societal problem. AI tools are necessary for supporting the moderation process at online platforms. For the evaluation of these identification tools, continuous experimentation with data sets in different languages are necessary. The HASOC track (Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification) is dedicated to develop benchmark data for this purpose. This paper presents the HASOC subtrack for English, Hindi, and Marathi. The data set was assembled from Twitter. This subtrack has two sub-tasks. Task A is a binary classification problem (Hate and Not Offensive) offered for all three languages. Task B is a fine-grained classification problem for three classes (HATE) Hate speech, OFFENSIVE and PROFANITY offered for English and Hindi. Overall, 652 runs were submitted by 65 teams. The performance of the best classification algorithms for task A are F1 measures 0.91, 0.78 and 0.83 for Marathi, Hindi and English, respectively. This overview presents the tasks and the data development as well as the detailed results. The systems submitted to the competition applied a variety of technologies. The best performing algorithms were mainly variants of transformer architectures.

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This paper presents online hate speech as a societal and computational challenge. Offensive content detection in social media is considered as a multilingual, multi-level, multi-class classification problem for three Indo-European languages. This research problem is offered to the community through the HASOC shared task. HASOC intends to stimulate research and development in hate speech recognition across different languages. Three datasets (in English, German, and Hindi) were developed from Twitter and Facebook, and made available. This paper describes the creation of the multilingual datasets and the annotation method. We will present the numerous approaches based on traditional classifiers, deep neural models, and transfer learning models, along with features used for the classification. Results show that the best classifier for the binary classification might not perform best in the multi-class classification, and the performance of the same classifier varies across the languages. Overall, transfer learning models such as BERT, and deep neural models based on LSTMs and CNNs perform similar but better than traditional classifiers such as SVM. We will conclude the discussion with a list of issues that needs to be addressed for future datasets.

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