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Pranav Narayanan Venkit

The unappreciated role of intent in algorithmic moderation of abusive content on social media

Xinyu Wang, Sai Koneru, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Brett Frischmann and Sarah Rajtmajer

A significant body of research is dedicated to developing language models that can detect various types of online abuse, for example, hate speech, cyberbullying. However, there is a disconnect between platform policies, which often consider the author’s intention as a criterion for content moderation, and the current capabilities of detection models, which typically lack efforts to capture intent.

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