A just and comprehensive strategy for using NlP to address online abuse

David Jurgens, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Libby Hemphill

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Abstract

Online abusive behavior affects millions and the NLP community has attempted to mitigate this problem by developing technologies to detect abuse. However, current methods have largely focused on a narrow definition of abuse to detriment of victims who seek both validation and solutions. In this position paper, we argue that the community needs to make three substantive changes: (1) expanding our scope of problems to tackle both more subtle and more serious forms of abuse, (2) developing proactive technologies that counter or inhibit abuse before it harms, and (3) reframing our effort within a framework of justice to promote healthy communities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages3658-3666
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781950737482
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019 - Florence, Italy
Duration: Jul 28 2019Aug 2 2019

Conference

Conference57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period7/28/198/2/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • General Computer Science
  • Linguistics and Language

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