CoRAL: a Context-aware Croatian Abusive Language Dataset

In light of unprecedented increases in the popularity of the internet and social media, comment moderation has never been a more relevant task. Semi-automated comment moderation systems greatly aid human moderators by either automatically classifying the examples or allowing the moderators to prioritize which comments to consider first. However, the concept of inappropriate content is often subjective, and such content can be conveyed in many subtle and indirect ways. In this work, we propose CoRAL – a language and culturally aware Croatian Abusive dataset covering phenomena of implicitness and reliance on local and global context. We show experimentally that current models degrade when comments are not explicit and further degrade when language skill and context knowledge are required to interpret the comment.Funded by the project RobaCOFI (Robust and adaptable comment filtering), which indirectly received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation action programme via the AI4Media Open Call #1 issued and executed under the AI4Media project (Grant Agreement no. 951911)