Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2021: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages

Understand

The widespread of offensive content online such as hate speech poses a growing societal problem.

• AI tools are necessary for supporting the moderation process at online platforms.
• For the evaluation of these identification tools, continuous experimentation with data sets in different languages are necessary.
• The HASOC track (Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification) is dedicated to develop benchmark data for this purpose.