HSD Shared Task in VLSP Campaign 2019:Hate Speech Detection for Social Good
This addresses hate speech detection for social good in Vietnamese social media, but it is incremental as it focuses on organizing a shared task rather than proposing new methods.
The paper organized a hate speech detection task for Vietnamese Facebook messages, classifying them into 'HATE', 'OFFENSIVE', or 'CLEAN' categories using a dataset of 25,431 items, which attracted 71 teams and 380 submissions.
The paper describes the organisation of the "HateSpeech Detection" (HSD) task at the VLSP workshop 2019 on detecting the fine-grained presence of hate speech in Vietnamese textual items (i.e., messages) extracted from Facebook, which is the most popular social network site (SNS) in Vietnam. The task is organised as a multi-class classification task and based on a large-scale dataset containing 25,431 Vietnamese textual items from Facebook. The task participants were challenged to build a classification model that is capable of classifying an item to one of 3 classes, i.e., "HATE", "OFFENSIVE" and "CLEAN". HSD attracted a large number of participants and was a popular task at VLSP 2019. In particular, there were 71 teams signed up for the task, 14 of them submitted results with 380 valid submissions from 20th September 2019 to 4th October 2019.