2021/11/09 by Songqiao Han, Han, Songqiao, Hailiang Huang +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Applications (stat.AP) #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Economics and business #General Economics (econ.GN) #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.04951
openalex publication_date 2021/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Social media platforms may provide potential space for discourses that contain hate speech, and even worse, can act as a propagation mechanism for hate crimes. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects hate crime data and releases statistic report yearly. These statistics provide information in determining national hate crime trends. The statistics can also provide valuable holistic and strategic insight for law enforcement agencies or justify lawmakers for specific legislation. However, the reports are mostly released next year and lag behind many immediate needs. Recent research mainly focuses on hate speech detection in social media text or empirical studies on the impact of a confirmed crime. This paper proposes a framework that first utilizes text mining techniques to extract hate crime events from New York Times news, then uses the results to facilitate predicting American national-level and state-level hate crime trends. Experimental results show that our method can significantly enhance the prediction performance compared with time series or regression methods without event-related factors. Our framework broadens the methods of national-level and state-level hate crime trends prediction.