A Dataset for the Detection of Dehumanizing Language

Paul Engelmann, Peter Trolle, Christian Hardmeier


Abstract
Dehumanization is a mental process that enables the exclusion and ill treatment of a group of people. In this paper, we present two data sets of dehumanizing text, a large, automatically collected corpus and a smaller, manually annotated data set. Both data sets include a combination of political discourse and dialogue from movie subtitles. Our methods give us a broad and varied amount of dehumanization data to work with, enabling further exploratory analysis as well as automatic classification of dehumanization patterns. Both data sets will be publicly released.
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2024.ltedi-1.2
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
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March
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2024
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St. Julian's, Malta
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, Paul Buitelaar, Thenmozhi Durairaj, György Kovács, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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14–20
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Paul Engelmann, Peter Trolle, and Christian Hardmeier. 2024. A Dataset for the Detection of Dehumanizing Language. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pages 14–20, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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