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New Corpus MISO-BR Targets Misogyny Detection in Brazilian Portuguese

Researchers have introduced MISO-BR, a new open corpus designed for detecting misogyny in Brazilian Portuguese social media text. The corpus contains 896 annotated social media posts, developed with a detailed construction protocol and reproducible baselines. Experiments show that transformer models like BERTimbau achieve significantly higher performance than classical classifiers, reaching a macro-F1 score of 0.833 compared to the classical models' range of 0.651-0.676. AI

IMPACT Provides a new resource for developing and evaluating hate speech detection models in a less-resourced language.

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New Corpus MISO-BR Targets Misogyny Detection in Brazilian Portuguese

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · F\'abio A. S. Passos, P\'ericles B. C. Miranda, Ana Paula Cavalcanti ·

    MISO-BR: An Open Corpus for Misogyny Detection in Brazilian Portuguese

    arXiv:2611.14036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Misogyny is among the most prevalent forms of online hate speech directed at Brazilian users, yet open and auditable resources dedicated to it in Brazilian Portuguese remain scarce. We introduce MISO-BR, an open, documented and ve…