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        <article-title>Inters8: A Corpus to Study Misogyny and Intersectionality on Twitter</article-title>
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          <string-name>Ivan Spada</string-name>
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          <string-name>Mirko Lai</string-name>
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          <string-name>Viviana Patti</string-name>
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          <institution>Aequa-tech srl</institution>
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          <addr-line>Turin</addr-line>
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      <pub-date>
        <year>2023</year>
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      <volume>02</volume>
      <issue>2023</issue>
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      <abstract>
        <p>This paper presents our research on the detection of online misogyny on social media and its intersection with other hate categories. Focusing on the phenomenon of misogyny, we carried out a corpus-based data analysis around victims of online hate campaigns. Targets were selected to study how misogyny and sexism intersect with other categories of social hatred and discrimination such as xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia. This study includes an event-driven analysis of hate on Twitter concerning specific targets, the process of developing the Inters8 corpus, and its manual annotation according to a novel multi-level scheme designed to assess the presence of intersectional hatred.</p>
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        <kwd>automatic misogyny identification</kwd>
        <kwd>intersectionality</kwd>
        <kwd>annotated corpora</kwd>
        <kwd>social media</kwd>
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      <p>perceptions that can greatly vary according to personal
experiences and cultural backgrounds.</p>
      <p>Several eforts in terms of automatic detection have
been provided by scholars for countering hate speech
[5, 6]. About misogyny, a first computational efort for
the detection of misogyny in English tweets has been
provided in [7], while [8] attempts to address the problem
of measuring and mitigating unintended bias in machine
learning models trained for misogyny detection. A first
automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI) shared task has
been organized within EVALITA and IberEval 2018
evaluation campaigns [8, 9] to detect misogyny in tweets in
various languages (English, Spanish, and Italian). In
particular, participants were specifically requested to
identify if the message is misogynistic, and then to categorize
the target (person or not) and the type of misogyny using
the categories developed by [10]. Based on the
availability of multilingual datasets targeting misogyny and
other kind of abusive language, in [11] a multilingual
and cross-domain study on misogyny identification in
Twitter is proposed, where some insights on features of
misogyny and on the interaction between misogyny and
related phenomena are provided. In this work, we try
to shed more light on misogyny and intersectionality
with other co-existing forms of discrimination such as
xenophobia, islamophobia, and stereotype proposing a
new annotation scheme. In Section 4.1 we specifically
analyze the contributions that inspired our work.
ulation forced to stay at home was making substantial
use of social media [16]. The analysis process starts with
prior knowledge of the Italian context obtained from
consulting services that convey information such as
newspapers, news broadcasts, and TV shows. It was noticed
that some streams of discourse on Twitter were
eventdriven, these included: reporting news, inviting guests,
and discussing known people on TV shows.</p>
      <p>Focusing on misogyny (the explicit and implicit
attitude of generic aversion to women), the additional social
categories considered are inspired by those in Vox’s
Intolerance Map n.73. The categories taken into account
in this study are as follows: misogyny, xenophobia,
antisemitism, Islamophobia, homolesbobitransphobia, political
opinions and physical appearance.</p>
      <p>Through scraping news and TV shows available on
RaiPlay4 (the Italian television streaming service), we
3. Methodology viewed episodes of 23 TV shows, qualitatively analyzed
and selected 17 well-known people in Italy5 who fall into
In this section, we describe the methodological pipeline multiple dimensionalities considered in this case study.
we designed in order to collect data to analyze intersec- The manual analysis of the language, expressed in TV
protional hate and discrimination. The target- and event- grams and Twitter interactions concerning the selected
oriented nature of hate speech in social media has been targets, allowed the extraction of information framing the
the object of recent studies [12, 13, 11, 14, 15]. Hate subjects: dimensionalities, topics, events, debates,
hashdiscourses may vary in relation to events and victims tags, and the most common and narrow keywords. The
belonging to multiple dimensionalities. However, it is following were annotated for each victim: Twitter
usernecessary to take into account that recognition of the name (if they joined the social network), characteristics
discriminatory phenomenon may be partly subjective potentially exposed to hate and discrimination, hashtags,
and influenced by the social and cultural context. time period analyzed, TV shows, and links to episodes</p>
      <p>In order to contextualize and explore the phenomenon where they were invited or talked about.
of intersectionality among multiple social categories sub- In addition, an   table6 was compiled to make the
jected to hate and discrimination, we conducted an anal- target comparison visually easier, where  refers to the
ysis of discourses concerning public people, known to
Italian society, selected specifically for this task. 3VOX, University of Milan, Sapienza University of Rome,
Our pipeline consists of a sequence of steps (Figure 1). Aldo Moro University of Bari and ItsTime (2022). The map
of intolerance n.7. Available at: http://www.voxdiritti.it/
3.1. Discourse analysis regarding targets la-nu4ohvttap-sm:/a/wppwaw-d.realliipnltaoyl.liet/ranza-7/
and events 5Giovanna Botteri, Carola Rachete, Cathy La Torre, Cécile
Kyenge, Chiara Appendino, Diletta Leotta, Emma Bonino, Greta
The period chosen for analysis is the first half of 2020, the Thunberg, Ilaria Cucchi, Laura Boldrini, Liliana Segre, Michela
Muryear when the COVID-192 pandemic began and the pop- gia, Rula Jebreal, Silvia Romano, Teresa Bellanova, Virginia Raggi
and Vladimir Luxuria.</p>
      <p>2https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus 6https://github.com/ivsnp/inters8/tree/main/targets
people and  to the hate categories. Since misogyny
was the focus of this study, all selected victims had the
misogyny column marked. Other categories were marked
when present.</p>
      <p>Output: selection of related targets, events, and hashtags
useful for the next phase.</p>
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      <title>3.2. Tweets collection and selection</title>
      <p>Data Collection Given the targets and events obtained
from the previous phase, Italian tweets regarding targets
in the temporal surroundings of the detected events were
extracted from TWITA [2]. These tweets contained at
least one hashtag among those found during the first
phase or both the first and last names of the
corresponding target or aliases.</p>
      <p>We collected the following metadata for each Twitter
interaction: tweetId, date, text, type (tweet, retweet,
quote, or reply).</p>
      <p>Output: collection of tweets related to targets and
events useful for the next phase.</p>
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        <title>Output: Inters8 corpus consisting of the tweets collected</title>
        <p>regarding the selected target and event.</p>
        <p>Sampling of Data to Annotate The process of creating
the Inters8 subset followed these steps: (1) retweets
removal, (2) similar tweets removal using cosine similarity
by setting the threshold to 0.7, (3) the collection was
filtered to include tweets with and without the Italian flag
emoji with 50% proportion keeping the same
distribution for days and hours. The latter decision was made
so that the annotation could be compared according to
the presence of the Italian flag emoji, days, and hours.
Indeed, the presence of the Italian flag seemed to convey
hateful content in the pilot study. The collection related
to Silvia Romano and the selected event reached 3006
contents, 1500 were randomly extracted for creating a
sample to be annotated Inters8_SRomano.</p>
        <p>The subset was cleaned of user mentions and URLs.
The metadata used to describe the tweets were as follows:
id, parentTweetText (if exists), and tweetText.</p>
        <p>Output: Inters8_SRomano annotated according to the
proposed annotation schema</p>
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        <title>Data Selection After obtaining the collection of tweets</title>
        <p>in output from the previous phase, we set out to create a 3.3. Annotation process
corpus containing tweets related to events concerning
targets that were potentially victims of intersectional hatred. The manual annotation process was divided into two
This decision aimed to provide a set of Twitter interac- phases: (1) pilot - a sampling of 50 tweets was selected
tions (tweets, replies, quotes, and retweets) to perform an to evaluate the annotation scheme and (2) operational
analysis of the intersection of various dimensionalities the annotation of the Inters8_SRomano sample dataset.
in a target-event context. Our annotation scheme is described in Section 4.</p>
        <p>We proceeded with target-event filtering in order to Twelve annotators, balanced by gender, were employed
obtain a case study on which to start analyzing the phe- in order to ensure a diversified and representative group
nomenon. The Inters8 corpus was populated with the covering a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
Twitter interactions collected by selecting the deliver- Guidelines provided to annotators were refined after a
ance from captivity and homecoming of the target Silvia discussion within the pilot phase.
Romano7 to Italy on May 9-10, 2020. This choice of target- The subset was annotated as follows: we collected 3
event pair was made because there were more Twitter independent annotations for 1373 tweets. The remaining
interactions compared with others [17]8. Thus, it was 127 were annotated only by two independent annotators;
intended to create a pilot on a specific case study. Given a third annotation was collected in order to solve the
this target-event choice, the goal was to explore the in- disagreement.
tersectionality between the following dimensionalities: The quantitative analysis conducted by manual
annomisogyny, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. tation enabled the assessment of the actual coexistence</p>
        <p>Inters8 contains 248240 interactions concerning the of multiple discriminatory and hate dimensions and the
chosen target-event pair distributed during May 9-24, construction of a gold standard.
2020. It consists of contents distributed per interaction Annotators features table, annotation scheme,
guidetype as follows: retweet 75%, tweets 18%, reply 4%, lines in Italian and English, and annotation results
oband quote 2%. The metadata is as follows: tweetId and tained through majority vote are available here.
type (tweet, retweet, quote, or reply). Output: subset of Inters8 annotated according to the
proposed annotation scheme.</p>
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        <title>7https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52608614</title>
        <p>8According to the Italian observatory “Map of Intolerance http:
//www.voxdiritti.it/la-nuova-mappa-dellintolleranza-5/ the peak of
social attacks against Muslims occurred right around the time of
Silvia Romano’s liberation, a media shitstorm that prompted the
Special Operations Group (Ros) to open up an investigation ad hoc
into the matter.</p>
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          <title>4. A Novel Annotation Scheme</title>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-4">
        <title>This section describes the process of creating a novel annotation scheme for multi-level analysis of intersectionality.</title>
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      <title>4.1. Related annotation schemes</title>
      <sec id="sec-3-1">
        <title>Our annotation scheme is partially inspired by the</title>
        <p>ones designed in [18, 19]. The scheme used in the
AMI@EVALITA18 shared task challenged the
participants not only to determine whether misogynous
content was expressed in the tweets, but also to classify
the misogynistic behavior, by proposing the categories:
Stereotype &amp; Objectification , Dominance, Derailing, Sexual
Harassment &amp; Threats of Violence, and Discredit. A deeper
analysis presented in [20], suggested some insights and
motivations to simplify the fine-grained misogynistic
behavior to be annotated in our scheme.</p>
        <p>The distinction between specific individuals and
generic groups of people, also mentioned in [19], was not
introduced in our scheme, since the debates around the
selected victims turn out to be particularly specific.</p>
        <p>A further contribution, annotating an Italian
immigration corpus, measured the intensity of hate speech
on a scale of 0 to 4 [21]. The idea of measuring hate
inspired the comparison of intensities and prevalence
among coexisting dimensionalities.</p>
        <p>Stance analysis in [22] is performed to check the
behavior of tweets in response to others. They used the
following labels: agree-accept (support), reject (deny),
info-request (question), and opinion (comment). In the
case under analysis, it was suficient to consider: support,
against, and neutral.</p>
        <p>Moreover, as highlighted also in [19, 21], it is important
to diferentiate aggressive language from hate speech:
in fact, aggressive content is not necessarily expressed
through hateful vocabulary and vice versa. Since hatred
and discrimination can appear implicitly, it is not always
easy and immediate to recognize them in negative and
aggressive content on social media. Moreover, not all
expressions of disapproval and disagreement with groups
imply discrimination. Such findings were useful in order
to highlight the importance of annotating both implicit
and explicit forms of hate speech.</p>
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      <title>4.2. Annotation scheme</title>
      <p>The multi-level scheme9 was meant to bring out the
dimensionalities, and the cohesiveness and prevalence
among them. The coarse-grained level is intended to
annotate the presence of misogyny, xenophobia, and
Islamophobia. The fine-grained analysis, first, aims to
recognize which dimensionality prevails over the others.
Secondly, a sub-classification of misogyny, if there is any,
is proposed to classify it into sexual harassment /
derailing and discrediting / dominance. Finally, an annotation</p>
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        <title>9Annotation scheme and guidelines are available at: https://</title>
        <p>github.com/ivsnp/inters8/blob/main/annotation
of stereotyping, victim defense, and stance toward any
parent tweet is proposed. A detailed description of the
labels involved, supported by examples, follows.</p>
        <p>Misogynistic behavior [/]: explicit and implicit
forms, including aversion, repulsion, target silencing
and instrumentalization of pregnancy, following the
definition “misogynistic behavior is about hostility towards
women who violate patriarchal norms and expectations,
who aren’t serving male interests in the ways they’re
expected to. So there’s this sense that women are doing
something wrong: that they’re morally objectionable or have a
bad attitude or they’re abrasive or shrill or too pushy” [23].</p>
        <p>Annotate the two following sub-labels only if
 = :
• Sexual harassment and/or derailing [/]:
the first includes avance, requests for sexual
favors, and any form of harassment involving sex
or speech in which abuse of women is justified by
belittling or evading male responsibility. The
latter refers to the intention to divert support toward
the victim by directing the discourse to a more
comfortable alternative issue while ignoring the
discriminatory problem.</p>
        <p>ITA: La z****la, appassionata ai
c**zi talebani, ha orchestrato una
messinscena con il tipo che se la s**pa
e si è sistemata a vita con il riscatto.</p>
        <p>ENG: That s**t, fond of Taliban
c***s, orchestrated a setup with the
guy who fu**ed her and set herself
up for life with the ransom money
• Discredit and/or dominance [/]:
discrediting occurs when an individual S, through a
communicative act, damages the image of another
individual T in front of a third party (individual
or group A) by referring to actions or
characteristics of T that are considered negative by A.</p>
        <p>Dominance is typically expressed as an assertion
of superiority by highlighting gender inequality.</p>
        <p>ITA: Conte dacci le prove del riscatto
pagato dagli italiani per questa
odiosa nullità e vergogna nazionale!
È una bambina indottrinata, senza
cervello e stupida. È andata in terre
cesso per seguire le sue idiozie
apparentemente umanitarie.</p>
        <p>ENG: Conte, give us evidence of the
ransom paid by the Italians for this
odious nothingness and national
disgrace! She is an indoctrinated brat,
braindead and stupid. She went to
toilet-lands to follow her supposedly
humanitarian nonsense
Xenophobia and/or racism [/]: explicit and
implicit forms, i.e., expressions of racism based on the
arbitrary assumption of the existence of biologically and
historically "superior" human races, aversion to
foreigners, and what is foreign. The latter manifests itself in
attitudes and actions of intolerance and hostility toward
the culture and inhabitants of other countries. In order to
analyze ingroup and outgroup dynamics [24, 25, 26], we
also consider texts where the target subject and other
Italians are insulted or rejected as members of the ingroup,
or stigmatized as anti-Italian, because of their proximity
to (or support for) foreign populations or immigrants, to
be expressions of xenophobia.</p>
        <p>ITA: Una donna bianca convertita
all’Islam, esce indenne dai ne***ni, belve
inferocite, andate tutti a fare in c*lo.</p>
        <p>ENG: A white woman converted to Islam,
comes out untouched by the nig***s, raging
beasts, f**k you all.</p>
        <p>Note: This tweet is an example of the
intersection of multiple dimensionalities of
hatred toward vulnerable groups. The term
“italiota” means “Italian idiot” and
“ingrassata” refers to the target’s pregnancy.</p>
        <p>Stereotypes [/]: negative sexist, xenophobic,
racist and Islamophobic stereotypes concerning
vulnerable groups targeted by discrimination and hate speech
considered in this study on intersectional hatred.
Stereotyping is a generalization conducted about a group of
people, in which characteristics are attributed to all
members of the group [27]. Stereotyping is based on a set of
beliefs, not based on experience, that people enact to
interpret their surroundings and move through them.</p>
        <p>ITA: È venuta qui per fare attentati, è una
terrorista, è anche incinta di un
musulmano. Se stava bene in Islam rimpatriatela
#convertita.</p>
        <p>Islamophobia [/]: explicit and implicit forms of Target defense [/]: it indicates whether the user
strong aversion, dictated by prejudicial reasons, toward who posted the tweet defends the hate target,
contributIslamic culture and religion. The main manifestations in- ing to creating a counter-narrative efect. It includes
clude criminalizing targets by describing them as threat- both support without discrimination and support that
ening and violent. It is often joined by xenophobia and redirects hatred toward other people (without actually
may appear in the form of dehumanization of targets. counteracting hate speech).</p>
        <p>ITA: È venuta qui per fare attentati, è una
terrorista, è anche incinta di un
musulmano. Se stava bene in Islam rimpatriatela
#convertita.</p>
        <p>ENG: She came here to do bomb attacks,
she is a terrorist, she is also pregnant by a
Muslim. If she was fine in Islam then send
her back #converted
Prevalence [/ℎ /
/ℎ/]: in case of
coexistence of at least two of the main categories to be
analyzed, indicate which one prevails over the others
within the tweet.</p>
        <p>ITA: Il governo ruba 4 milioni di euro agli
italioti per pagare uno specie di riscatto al
marito islamico che la mette incinta e la
converte. Arriva in Italia contenta,
ingrassata e viene accolta come una santa. Popolo
idiota!
ENG: The government steals 4 million
euros from the Italians to pay some kind of
ransom to her Islamic husband who
impregnates her and converts her. She arrives in
Italy happy, fat and is welcomed as a Saint.</p>
        <p>Idiotic people!
ITA: Il privato di Silvia Romano non
dovrebbe essere nel dibattito pubblico. È
stata liberata da una prigione fisica ma
intrappolata in una di violenze psicologiche
e pregiudizi inutili e ingiusti.</p>
        <p>ENG: Silvia Romano’s private life should
not be in the public debate. She was released
from a physical prison but trapped in one
of psychological violence and unnecessary
and unjust prejudice.</p>
        <p>Stance [///]: it
identiifes the stance of the user who posted a tweet reacting to
another one. The label takes the value support if it agrees
with the parent tweet, against if it disputes it, and neutral
if no stance can be inferred from the text. If there is no
parent tweet the default value is absent.</p>
        <p>ITA
Parent tweet: La liberazione di Silvia
Romano è una bella notizia. L’aspettiamo in
Italia, ringraziamo i nostri servizi di
Intelligence e coloro che hanno contribuito a
questo importante obiettivo.</p>
        <p>Child, or reply, tweet (contestazione):
Assolutamente no! Vanno a fare le
splendide in Africa ma quando si accorgono che
ci sono i ne***ni cattivi chiedono aiuto a
mamma Italia.</p>
        <p>ENG:
Parent tweet: The liberation of Silvia
Romano is good news. We are waiting for her
in Italy, we thank our intelligence services
and those who contributed to this important
achievement.</p>
        <p>Child, or reply, tweet (against):
Absolutely not! They go show of in Africa, but
when they realise there are bad nig***s they
ask Mamma Italia for help.</p>
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          <title>5. Results</title>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-4-2">
        <title>The annotation of Inters8_SRomano extracted from Inters8</title>
        <p>and the harmonization stage by majority vote yielded
the results shown below.</p>
        <p>Islamophobia is the most annotated dimensionality,
followed by misogynistic behavior and xenophobia/racism.</p>
        <p>Label annotation detected the following amounts
of tweets in the subset (see Figure 2): misogynistic
behavior 288 (19.2%), sexual harassment and/or
derailing 36 (12.5% of misogynistic behavior), discredit
and/or dominance 247 (85.8% of misogynistic
behavior), xenophobia and/or racism 153 (10.2%),
Islamophobia 317 (21.1%), stereotype 394 (26.3%), target defence
501 (33.4%), and stance [against=119, support=108,
absent=42, neutral=24]([40.6%, 36.9%, 14.4%, 8.2%] out
of 293 reply tweets).</p>
        <p>Stance, on the other hand, appeared dificult to
annotate because the stances often went of-topic.</p>
        <p>Among tweets labeled with at least one of the three
main dimensions of hate included in the proposed
annotation scheme, the Italian flag (in name, screen-name, bio
or tweet) appears as follows: 78.5% of misogynistic
behavior, 73.2% of Xenophobia and/or racism and 74.4%
of Islamophobia.</p>
        <p>The subset of tweets annotated with an intersection
between the three main dimensionalities (at least 2) has
cardinality 222. The most present and prevalent
dimension was Islamophobia.</p>
        <p>The following label distributions were obtained from
the annotation of intersectional tweets (see Figures 3
and 4): misogynistic behavior 184 (82.9%), xenophobia
and/or racism 117 (52.7%), Islamophobia 199 (89.6%),
and prevalence [Islamophobia=91, misogynistic
behavior=59, absent=42, xenophobia and/or racism=30]([41%,
26.6%, 18.9%, 13.5%] out of 293 reply tweets).</p>
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    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>5.1. Inter-Annotator Agreement</title>
      <sec id="sec-5-1">
        <title>Cohen’s average Kappa [28] was 0.40 and the Fleiss’ Kappa calculated was as follows: misogyny 0.49, sexual</title>
        <p>harassment / derailing 0.29, discredit / dominance 0.44, Recurrent topics Among the tweets annotated, some
xenophobia / racism 0.32, Islamophobia 0.53, prevalence recurring topics emerged: (1) dissent on the economic
0.33, stereotyping 0.33, target defense 0.59 and stance plan arguing that payment of the alleged ransom for
0.81. The calculation of Fleiss’ Kappa for tweets with release was not necessary, (2) aesthetic appearance by
three independent annotations showed how complicated seeing physical appearance and clothing as objects of
it was to classify the domain across the dimensionalities dialogue, (3) being ungrateful, selfish and a traitor to her
of the established multi-level scheme. (Silvia Romano) country for converting to the Islamic
religion, (4) victimization, (5) pregnancy, and (6) politics.
5.2. Considerations In the former case, it was not always possible to
recognize the discriminatory nature since a variable related
Misogyny has been labeled more by female annotators, to discontent about the Italian economic situation was
only 1/3 of male annotators come close to the former. also present. The second focused on arrival at the airport
This is an expected result as the former tend to be more wearing the hijab and a watch pointed to as lavish despite
sensitive to the issue confirming that, for creating an the fact that it was not possible to distinguish it from the
unbiased annotated dataset, is important to employ an- content disseminated by the media. The third appeared
notators belonging to heterogeneous social categories. describing her as a member of the outgroup. The
remain</p>
        <p>Inter-Annotator Agreement Following an overview ing ones also appeared frequently in the narrative of the
of the annotated subset and comparison with the annota- annotated subset.
tors involved in this experiment, it appeared that many Counter-speech It has been observed that
counterdisagreements occurred on the label stereotypes, some speech, carried out by users who take the defense of
vicannotators recognizing many more than others indepen- tims, sometimes proposes an alternative narrative to hate
dently from their self-identified gender and age. The speech. Other times they follow defensive strategies that
annotations appeared quite subjective and often repeti- are themselves ofensive generating further hate speech.
tive because the presence of other discriminatory
dimensionality often involves stereotypes. Concerning stance,
the presence of irony and rhetorical questions inside the 6. Conclusions and future work
dataset complicates the valuation of the attribute.</p>
        <p>The complexity of some annotation scheme labels em- Developing the Inters8 corpus built considering an
interphasizes the dificulty of annotating tweets about this sectional target-event pair allowed us to explore a case
domain and brings out the presence of bias. study and analyze Twitter interactions related to Silvia</p>
        <p>In addition, the phenomenon of premediation [29] has Romano on social media. The manual annotation
apbeen observed in this case study. Indeed, Twitter’s users plied highlights how multiple dimensionalities coexist
expressed their own opinions favoring immediacy and and intertwine in cases of intersectional hate.
emotionality in communication as a preliminary reaction Despite the evidence of the phenomenon and its
dyto the first information about the news. Tweets and in- namics, results presented here are related to the specific
teractions began immediately, despite the fact that the case study taken into account, and to the target and the
full picture of the afair was not clear at that moment, event selected. In fact, at the current stage of
developbringing the event to the platform’s trending topics. ment, the Inters8 corpus includes content related to the</p>
        <p>Target Comparing the Twitter interactions regard- specific intersectional Silvia Romano’s liberation
targeting Silvia Romano with those around Luca Tacchetto10, event pair. We plan to expand the corpus with additional
Alessandro Sandrini11, and Sergio Zanotti12, the following targets, events, and social categories. It would then be
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inkidnapping like Silvia Romano. Among them, Tacchetto tersection and study how local culture might influence
and Sandrini were converted to Islam. Considering the the phenomenon over several countries.
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Interestingly, the volume of reactions related to the Silvia study of the geographic distribution of the phenomenon
Romano’s liberation is much higher (see [30] for a deeper around known people and events.
analysis about this topic), suggesting that the intersec- Finally, there are many interactions on social networks
tionality with misogyny matters. and the experimental study for automatic detection of
intersectional hate may be a challenge of particular
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