Building a formal model for hate detection in French corpora

Delphine Battistelli (1) , Cyril Bruneau (1) , Valentina Dragos (2)

1 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
2 DTIS, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau]

This paper investigates the development of a formal model in order to analyse online hate in French corpora. Relevant concepts are identified by exploiting several sources: the cognitive foundations of the appraisal theory, according to which people's emotional response are based on their own evaluative judgments or appraisals of situations, events or objects; a linguistic model of how different kinds of modalities applied to predicative contents are expressed in textual data; several definitions of a hate speech. Based on those inputs, a formal model was developed to describe online hate speech. The model highlights different categories of hate targets and actions, and emphasizes the importance of context for online hate detection.

Mots clés: Online hate speech; Ontology; Semantics

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Physique [physics]; Mathématiques [math]; Linguistique

Delphine Battistelli, Cyril Bruneau, Valentina Dragos. Building a formal model for hate detection in French corpora. Procedia Computer Science, 2020, Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference KES2020, 176, pp.2358 - 2365. ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2020.09.299⟩. ⟨hal-03184124⟩