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+# Model Card for German Hate Speech Classifier
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+## Model Details
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+### Introduction
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+This model was developed to explore the potential of German language models in multi-class classification of hate speech in German online journals. It is a fine-tuned version of the GBERT model from (Chan, Schweter, and Möller, 2020).
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+### Dataset
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+The dataset used for training is a consolidation of three pre-existing German hate speech datasets:
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+- **RP (Assenmacher et al., 2021)**
+- **DeTox (Demus et al., 2022)**
+- **Twitter dataset (Glasenbach, 2022)**
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+The combined dataset underwent cleaning to minimize biases and remove redundant data.
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+## Performance
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+Our experiments delivered promising results, with the model reliably classifying comments into:
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+- **No Hate Speech**
+- **Political Hate Speech**
+- **Racist Hate Speech**
+- **Sexist Hate Speech**
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+The model achieved a macro F1-score of 0.775.