CRUSH: Contextually Regularized and User anchored Self-supervised Hate speech Detection

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a surge in the interaction of people through social networking platforms. While there are several positive aspects of these social platforms, their proliferation has led them to become the breeding ground for cyber-bullying and hate speech. Recent advances in NLP have often been used to mitigate the spread of such hateful content. Since the task of hate speech detection is usually applicable in the context of social networks, we introduce CRUSH, a framework for hate speech detection using User Anchored selfsupervision and contextual regularization. Our proposed approach secures ≈ 1-12% improvement in test set metrics over best performing previous approaches on two types of tasks and multiple popular English language social networking datasets. Note: This paper contains materials that may be offensive or upsetting to some people.