HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech against Fulani in Nigeria

11/28/2022

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by   Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, et al.

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Social media platforms allow users to freely share their opinions about issues or anything they feel like. However, they also make it easier to spread hate and abusive content. The Fulani ethnic group has been the victim of this unfortunate phenomenon. This paper introduces the HERDPhobia - the first annotated hate speech dataset on Fulani herders in Nigeria - in three languages: English, Nigerian-Pidgin, and Hausa. We present a benchmark experiment using pre-trained languages models to classify the tweets as either hateful or non-hateful. Our experiment shows that the XML-T model provides better performance with 99.83 https://github.com/hausanlp/HERDPhobia for further research.