Publication: A study of Hate Speech in Social Media during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Date
2020-07-01
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NLP-COVID-2020
Abstract
In pandemic situations, hate speech propagates
in social media, new forms of stigmatization
arise and new groups are targeted with this
kind of speech.
In this short article, we present work in
progress on the study of hate speech in Spanish tweets related to newspaper articles about
the COVID-19 pandemic.
We cover two main aspects: The construction
of a new corpus annotated for hate speech in
Spanish tweets, and the analysis of the collected data in order to answer questions from
the social field, aided by modern computational tools.
Definitions and progress are presented in both
aspects. For the corpus, we introduce the data
collection process, the annotation schema and
criteria, and the data statement. For the analysis, we present our goals and its associated
questions. We also describe the definition and
training of a hate speech classifier, and present
preliminary results using it.