Challenge: Hate speech detection datasets often use different annotation guidelines, resulting in inconsistencies . authors propose a topic-oriented approach to study generalization across popular hate speech datasets .
Approach: They propose a topic-oriented approach to study generalization across popular hate speech datasets . they compare Transformer-based models in capturing topic-generic and topic-specific knowledge .
Outcome: The proposed approach improves the reliability of hate speech detection on social media platforms.

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