SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism
This work addresses the need for more nuanced and interpretable automated tools to combat harmful online sexism, though it is incremental as it builds on existing detection tasks.
The paper tackled the problem of detecting online sexism by introducing a hierarchical taxonomy and a new dataset of 20,000 labeled social media comments to enable explainable and fine-grained classification.
Online sexism is a widespread and harmful phenomenon. Automated tools can assist the detection of sexism at scale. Binary detection, however, disregards the diversity of sexist content, and fails to provide clear explanations for why something is sexist. To address this issue, we introduce SemEval Task 10 on the Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS). We make three main contributions: i) a novel hierarchical taxonomy of sexist content, which includes granular vectors of sexism to aid explainability; ii) a new dataset of 20,000 social media comments with fine-grained labels, along with larger unlabelled datasets for model adaptation; and iii) baseline models as well as an analysis of the methods, results and errors for participant submissions to our task.