# HateMonitors: Language Agnostic Abuse Detection in Social Media

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12642 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12642/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 27 Sep 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Fairness for Unobserved Characteristics: Insights from Technological Impacts on Queer Communities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.04257/) (2021)
- [Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.02513/) (2023)
- [Exploring multi-task multi-lingual learning of transformer models for hate speech and offensive speech identification in social media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.11155/) (2021)
- [Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2022: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.10163/) (2022)
- [The Unappreciated Role of Intent in Algorithmic Moderation of Social Media Content](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.11030/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Reducing hateful and offensive content in online social media pose a dual problem for the moderators. On the one hand, rigid censorship on social media cannot be imposed. On the other, the free flow of such content cannot be allowed. Hence, we require efficient abusive language detection system to detect such harmful content in social media. In this paper, we present our machine learning model, HateMonitor, developed for Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC), a shared task at FIRE 2019. We have used a Gradient Boosting model, along with BERT and LASER embeddings, to make the system language agnostic. Our model came at First position for the German sub-task A. We have also made our model public at https://github.com/punyajoy/HateMonitors-HASOC .