TheNorth @ HaSpeeDe 2: BERT-based Language Model Fine-tuning for Italian Hate Speech Detection (short paper)

Abstract

English. This report was written to describe the systems that were submitted by the team “TheNorth” for the HaSpeeDe 2 shared task organised within EVALITA 2020. To address the main task which is hate speech detection, we fine-tuned BERT-based models. We evaluated both multilingual and Italian language models trained with the data provided and additional data. We also studied the contributions of multitask learning considering both hate speech detection and stereotype detection tasks.