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Transfer Language Selection for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Abusive Language Detection

arXiv 2206.00962 ↗First posted 2 Jun 2022cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

We study the selection of transfer languages for automatic abusive language detection. Instead of preparing a dataset for every language, we demonstrate the effectiveness of cross-lingual transfer learning for zero-shot abusive language detection. This way we can use existing data from higher-resource languages to build better detection systems for low-resource languages. Our datasets are from seven different languages from three language families. We measure the distance between the languages using several language similarity measures, especially by quantifying the World Atlas of Language Structures. We show that there is a correlation between linguistic similarity and classifier performance. This discovery allows us to choose an optimal transfer language for zero shot abusive language detection.

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8 papers.

  1. 2023Towards a Common Understanding of Contributing Factors for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models: A Reviewcited by 50
  2. 2023Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer language selection using linguistic similaritycited by 28
  3. 2023Cultural Compass: Predicting Transfer Learning Success in Offensive Language Detection with Cultural Featurescited by 18
  4. 2025Untangling the Influence of Typology, Data and Model Architecture on Ranking Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual POS Taggingcited by 9
  5. 2023Cyberbullying Detection for Low-resource Languages and Dialects: Review of the State of the Artcited by 8
  6. 2024Cross-lingual Offensive Language Detection: A Systematic Review of Datasets, Transfer Approaches and Challengescited by 2
  7. 2023Vicinal Risk Minimization for Few-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer in Abusive Language Detectioncited by 1
  8. 2026Linguistic Distance Segregates Latent Representations in Automatic Speech Recognition Systemscited by 0