Determining Code Words in Euphemistic Hate Speech Using Word Embedding Networks
Rijul Magu, Jiebo Luo · 2018
While analysis of online explicit abusive language detection has lately seen an everincreasing focus, implicit abuse detection remains a largely unexplored space.We carry out a study on a subcategory of implicit hate: euphemistic hate speech.We propose a method to assist in identifying unknown euphemisms (or code words) given a set of hateful tweets containing a known code word.Our approach leverages word embeddings and network analysis (through centrality measures and community detection) in a manner that can be generalized to identify euphemisms across contexts-not just hate speech.