hBERT + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web

Olawale Onabola, Zhuang Ma, Xie Yang, Benjamin Akera, Ibraheem Abdulrahman, Jia Xue, Dianbo Liu, Yoshua Bengio


Abstract
Subtle and overt racism is still present both in physical and online communities today and has impacted many lives in different segments of the society. In this short piece of work, we present how we’re tackling this societal issue with Natural Language Processing. We are releasing BiasCorp, a dataset containing 139,090 comments and news segment from three specific sources - Fox News, BreitbartNews and YouTube. The first batch (45,000 manually annotated) is ready for publication. We are currently in the final phase of manually labeling the remaining dataset using Amazon Mechanical Turk. BERT has been used widely in several downstream tasks. In this work, we present hBERT, where we modify certain layers of the pretrained BERT model with the new Hopfield Layer. hBert generalizes well across different distributions with the added advantage of a reduced model complexity. We are also releasing a JavaScript library 3 and a Chrome Extension Application, to help developers make use of our trained model in web applications (say chat application) and for users to identify and report racially biased contents on the web respectively
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2021.ltedi-1.4
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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April
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2021
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Kyiv
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, John P. McCrae, Manel Zarrouk, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
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LTEDI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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26–33
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Olawale Onabola, Zhuang Ma, Xie Yang, Benjamin Akera, Ibraheem Abdulrahman, Jia Xue, Dianbo Liu, and Yoshua Bengio. 2021. hBERT + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 26–33, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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