arxivcs.CLeess.SY2026-07-18
Cascading versus Joint Modeling for Hierarchical Offensive Language Detection
Ruixing Ren, Junhui Zhao, Xiaoke Sun
Fine-grained offensive language detection organizes labels into a hierarchical structure, for which two modeling paradigms exist: cascaded decomposition and joint multi-task modeling. Prior work rarely provides a direct, controlled comparison of the two paradigms in terms of accu…