README.md

---
language: 
  - en
tags:
- text-classification
- hate-speech
- counterspeech
- irt
- arxiv:2009.10277
datasets:
- ucberkeley-dlab/measuring-hate-speech
---

# Measuring Hate Speech: RoBERTa-Base

This model predicts a continuous hate speech score as described in Kennedy et al. (2020).

## Citation

```
@article{kennedy2020constructing,
  title={Constructing interval variables via faceted Rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application},
  author={Kennedy, Chris J and Bacon, Geoff and Sahn, Alexander and von Vacano, Claudia},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10277},
  year={2020}
}
```

## References

Kennedy, C. J., Bacon, G., Sahn, A., & von Vacano, C. (2020). [Constructing interval variables via faceted Rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10277). arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10277.