Mercy Amiyo

Majority Vote Silences Minority Values: Annotator Disagreement at the Hate/Offensive Boundary in HateXplain

Joshua Muhumuza, Joab Ezra Agaba, Mercy Amiyo

Hate speech annotation pipelines routinely collapse annotator disagreement into majority vote labels before training. We show that this aggregation is not neutral: 42.6% of all annotator disagreement in HateXplain concentrates specifically at the hate/offensive boundary, a patter…Read more