HarmonyNet: Navigating hate speech detection

Abstract

In the digital era, social media platforms have become central to communication across various domains. However, the vast spread of unregulated content often leads to the prevalence of hate speech and toxicity. Existing methods to detect this toxicity struggle with context sensitivity, accommodating diverse dialects, and adapting to varied communication styles. To tackle these challenges, we introduce an ensemble classifier that leverages the strengths of language models and traditional deep neural network architectures for more effective hate speech detection on social media. Our evaluations show that this hybrid approach outperforms individual models and exhibits robustness against adversarial attacks. Future efforts will aim to enhance the model’s architecture to further boost its efficiency and extend its capability to recognize hate speech across an even wider range of languages and dialects.

Keywords

• Hate speech
• Transformer-based models
• Language models