Emotionally-Bridged Cross-Lingual Meta-Learning for Chinese Sexism Detection

  • Guanlin Li
  • , Praboda Rajapaksha
  • , Reza Farahbakhsh
  • , Noel Crespi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Sexism detection remains as an extremely low-resource task for most of the languages including Chinese. To address this issue, we propose a zero-shot cross-lingual method to detect sexist speech in Chinese and perform qualitative and quantitative analyses on the data we employed. The proposed method aims to explicitly model the knowledge transfer process from rich-resource language to low-resource language using metric-based meta-learning. To overcome the semantic disparity between various languages caused by language-specific biases, a common label space of emotions expressed across languages is used to integrate universal emotion features into the meta-learning framework. Experiment results show that the proposed method improves over the state-of-the-art zero-shot cross-lingual classification methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 12th National CCF Conference, NLPCC 2023, Proceedings
EditorsFei Liu, Nan Duan, Qingting Xu, Yu Hong
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages627-639
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031446955
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023
Event12th National CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2023 - Foshan, China
Duration: 12 Oct 202315 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14303 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th National CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityFoshan
Period12/10/2315/10/23

Keywords

  • Cross-lingual
  • Meta-learning
  • Sexist Speech Detection

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