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Toxicity Detection in Finnish Using Machine Translation




AuthorsEskelinen Anni, Silvala Laura, Ginter Filip, Pyysalo Sampo, Laippala Veronika

EditorsTanel Alumäe, Mark Fishel

Conference nameNordic Conference on Computational Linguistics

Publishing placeFaroe Islands

Publication year2023

JournalNEALT proceedings series

Book title The 24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2023)

Series titleNEALT Proceedings Series

Number in series52

First page 685

Last page695

ISBN978-99-1621-999-7

ISSN1736-8197

eISSN1736-6305

Web address https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.68.pdf

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/380758462


Abstract

Due to the popularity of social media platforms and the sheer amount of usergenerated content online, the automatic detection of toxic language has become crucial in the creation of a friendly and safe digital space. Previous work has been mostly focusing on English leaving many lower-resource languages behind. In this paper, we present novel resources for toxicity detection in Finnish by introducing two new datasets, a machine translated toxicity dataset for Finnish based on the widely used English Jigsaw dataset and a smaller test set of Suomi24 discussion forum comments originally written in Finnish and manually annotated following the definitions of the labels that were used to annotate the Jigsaw dataset. We show that machine translating the training data to Finnish provides better toxicity detection results than using the original English training data and zero-shot cross-lingual transfer with XLM-R, even with our newly annotated dataset from Suomi24.


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