The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages

Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa; Ilia Markov; Piek Vossen

The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages

Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa, Ilia Markov, Piek Vossen

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Toxic language remains an ongoing challenge on social media platforms, presenting significant issues for users and communities. This paper provides a cross-topic and cross-lingual analysis of toxicity in Reddit conversations. We collect 1.5 million comment threads from 481 communities in six languages: English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, and Dutch, covering 80 topics such as Culture, Politics, and News. We thoroughly analyze how toxicity spikes within different communities in relation to specific topics. We observe consistent patterns of increased toxicity across languages for certain topics, while also noting significant variations within specific language communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024
Editors	Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Atul Kr. Ojha, Shervin Malmasi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bornini Lahiri, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
Publisher	ACL Anthology
Pages	1-11
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9782493814470
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	4th Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying, TRAC 2024 - Torino, Italy Duration: 20 May 2024 → …

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Conference	4th Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying, TRAC 2024
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	20/05/24 → …

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Cross-Lingual Analysis
Cross-Topic Analysis
Reddit
Toxic Language

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Tufa, W. T., Markov, I., & Vossen, P. (2024). The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages. In R. Kumar, A. K. Ojha, A. K. Ojha, S. Malmasi, B. R. Chakravarthi, B. Lahiri, S. Singh, & S. Ratan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024 (pp. 1-11). ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.org/2024.trac-1.1/

Tufa, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye ; Markov, Ilia ; Vossen, Piek. / The Constant in HATE : Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024. editor / Ritesh Kumar ; Atul Kr. Ojha ; Atul Kr. Ojha ; Shervin Malmasi ; Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi ; Bornini Lahiri ; Siddharth Singh ; Shyam Ratan. ACL Anthology, 2024. pp. 1-11

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Tufa, WT , Markov, I & Vossen, P 2024, The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages. in R Kumar, AK Ojha, AK Ojha, S Malmasi, BR Chakravarthi, B Lahiri, S Singh & S Ratan (eds), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024. ACL Anthology, pp. 1-11, 4th Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying, TRAC 2024, Torino, Italy, 20/05/24. <https://aclanthology.org/2024.trac-1.1/>

The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages. / Tufa, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye ; Markov, Ilia ; Vossen, Piek.
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024. ed. / Ritesh Kumar; Atul Kr. Ojha; Atul Kr. Ojha; Shervin Malmasi; Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi; Bornini Lahiri; Siddharth Singh; Shyam Ratan. ACL Anthology, 2024. p. 1-11.

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