Context-Aware Content Moderation for German Newspaper Comments
Felix Krejca; Tobias Kietreiber; Alexander Buchelt; Sebastian Neumaier · 2025 · arXiv
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Abstract (excerpt)
The increasing volume of online discussions requires advanced automatic content moderation to maintain responsible discourse. While hate speech detection on social media is well-studied, research on German-language newspaper forums remains limited. Existing studies often neglect platform-specific context, such as user history and article themes. This paper addresses this gap by developing and evaluating binary classification models for automatic content moderation in German newspaper forums, incorporating contextual information. Using LSTM, CNN, and ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo, and leveraging the One Mi
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