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Bangla hate speech detection fails on real-world social media data

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A new study highlights a significant crisis in Bangla hate speech detection systems, revealing that models trained on benchmark datasets perform poorly when applied to real-world social media content. Architectures like BanglaBERT and FastText + CNN showed substantial drops in F1-scores when evaluated on data from Facebook, X, and YouTube, particularly for implicit hate speech involving sarcasm and emojis. The research suggests that current systems struggle with culturally embedded expressions and over-police certain comments, emphasizing the need for more adaptive and context-aware frameworks for low-resource languages. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical limitations in current NLP models for low-resource languages, necessitating new approaches for ethical AI moderation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing research findings on AI model performance.

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Bangla hate speech detection fails on real-world social media data

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Faria Afrin Tisha, Fariya Tabassum, Hafsa Binte Kibria, Md. Nahiduzzaman, Mominul Ahsan ·

    Beyond Benchmarks: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in Bangla Hate Speech Detection

    arXiv:2607.11597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The spread of hate speech (HS) across different social media platforms (SMPs) poses a major concern for online safety and ethical moderation. Automatic detection of HS remains a challenging task, especially in under-resourced langua…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mominul Ahsan ·

    Beyond Benchmarks: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in Bangla Hate Speech Detection

    The spread of hate speech (HS) across different social media platforms (SMPs) poses a major concern for online safety and ethical moderation. Automatic detection of HS remains a challenging task, especially in under-resourced languages like Bangla, due to cultural context, implic…

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