Supporting Online Toxicity Detection with Knowledge Graphs

Reyero Lobo, Paula; Daga, Enrico and Alani, Harith (2022). Supporting Online Toxicity Detection with Knowledge Graphs. In: Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6-9 Jun 2022, Atlanta, Georgia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19398

URL: https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html/

Abstract

Due to the rise in toxic speech on social media and other online platforms, there is a growing need for systems that could automatically flag or filter such content. Various supervised machine learning approaches have been proposed, trained from manually-annotated toxic speech corpora. However, annotators sometimes struggle to judge or to agree on which text is toxic and which group is being targeted in a given text. This could be due to bias, subjectivity, or unfamiliarity with used terminology (e.g. domain language, slang). In this paper, we propose the use of a knowledge graph to help in better understanding such toxic speech annotation issues. Our empirical results show that 3 in a sample of 19k texts mention terms associated with frequently attacked gender and sexual orientation groups that were not correctly identified by the annotators.

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