data labeling

Researchers Tackle Annotator Disagreement to Improve Hate Speech Classification Accuracy

A new research paper from Dehghan, Sen, and Yanikoglu explores the challenge of annotator disagreement in hate speech classification. The authors evaluate aggregation methods like majority voting and ordinal strategies, demonstrating that filtering non-consensus samples leads to over-optimistic results and that leveraging perceived hate speech strength enhances performance. They establish new state-of-the-art results for Turkish tweets.