Alternative Speech: Complementary Method to Counter-Narrative for Better Discourse
This work addresses hate speech mitigation for social media and discourse platforms, presenting a new perspective but being incremental as it builds on existing counter-narrative approaches.
The paper tackles hate speech by introducing 'Alternative Speech' as a complementary method to counter-narrative, offering practical alternatives in real-world scenarios to promote speaker reform and address social issues like racial discrimination and gender inequality, with the result that combining these methods can be more effective by complementing specificity and guiding capacity.
We introduce the concept of "Alternative Speech" as a new way to directly combat hate speech and complement the limitations of counter-narrative. An alternative speech provides practical alternatives to hate speech in real-world scenarios by offering speech-level corrections to speakers while considering the surrounding context and promoting speakers to reform. Further, an alternative speech can combat hate speech alongside counter-narratives, offering a useful tool to address social issues such as racial discrimination and gender inequality. We propose the new concept and provide detailed guidelines for constructing the necessary dataset. Through discussion, we demonstrate that combining alternative speech and counter-narrative can be a more effective strategy for combating hate speech by complementing specificity and guiding capacity of counter-narrative. This paper presents another perspective for dealing with hate speech, offering viable remedies to complement the constraints of current approaches to mitigating harmful bias.