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American Hate Crime Trends Prediction with Event Extraction

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  • Songqiao Han
  • Hailiang Huang
  • Jiangwei Liu
  • Shengsheng Xiao

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Social media platforms may provide potential space for discourses that contain hate speech, and even worse, can act as a propagation mechanism for hate crimes. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects hate crime data and releases statistic report yearly. These statistics provide information in determining national hate crime trends. The statistics can also provide valuable holistic and strategic insight for law enforcement agencies or justify lawmakers for specific legislation. However, the reports are mostly released next year and lag behind many immediate needs. Recent research mainly focuses on hate speech detection in social media text or empirical studies on the impact of a confirmed crime. This paper proposes a framework that first utilizes text mining techniques to extract hate crime events from New York Times news, then uses the results to facilitate predicting American national-level and state-level hate crime trends. Experimental results show that our method can significantly enhance the prediction performance compared with time series or regression methods without event-related factors. Our framework broadens the methods of national-level and state-level hate crime trends prediction.

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  • Songqiao Han & Hailiang Huang & Jiangwei Liu & Shengsheng Xiao, 2021. "American Hate Crime Trends Prediction with Event Extraction," Papers 2111.04951, arXiv.org.
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    1. Runjing Lu & Yanying Sheng, 2020. "From Fear to Hate: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Sparks Racial Animus in the United States," Papers 2007.01448, arXiv.org.
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