SemEval-2022 Task 4: Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection
Carla Perez-Almendros, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert
2022Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)44 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of Task 4 at SemEval-2022, which was focused on detecting Patronizing and Condescending Language (PCL) towards vulnerable communities. Two sub-tasks were considered: a binary classification task, where participants needed to classify a given paragraph as containing PCL or not, and a multi-label classification task, where participants needed to identify which types of PCL are present (if any). The task attracted 77 teams. We provide an overview of how the task was organized, discuss the techniques that were employed by the different participants, and summarize the main resulting insights about PCL detection and categorization.
Topics & Concepts
SemEvalTask (project management)ParagraphComputer scienceCategorizationNatural language processingBinary classificationArtificial intelligenceWorld Wide WebSupport vector machineEconomicsManagementHate Speech and Cyberbullying DetectionAuthorship Attribution and ProfilingTranslation Studies and Practices