Abstract
Counterspeech (CS) - direct responses that counter online Hate Speech (HS) using reasoning and alternative viewpoints - has emerged as an alternative to content removal. Current automatic CS generation methods, however, frequently produce generic, ineffective replies that fail to target the implicit stereotypes behind HS. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel scope-conditioned generation framework that explicitly integrates structured stereotype characteristics into Large Language Models prompts. We validate our approach on a novel, human-curated dataset annotated in English, Italian, and Spanish. Extensive evaluations show that stereotype-conditioned prompting substantially outperforms generic baselines across all three languages, obtaining significant gains in factuality, specificity, cogency, and effectiveness for both explicit and implicit implied stereotypes.
Keywords
Subject
Publication details
- Journal
- Not available
- Open access
- Green open access
Cite this article
APA 7
Damo, G., Alacreu, E. U., Cabrio, E., Rosso, P., & Villata, S. (2026). Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech
MLA 9
Damo, Greta, et al. "Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech.
Chicago (author–date)
Damo, Greta, Elias Urios Alacreu, Elena Cabrio, Paolo Rosso, and Serena Villata. 2026. "Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech.
Harvard
Damo, G., Alacreu, E. U., Cabrio, E., Rosso, P. and Villata, S. (2026) 'Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech.
Vancouver
Damo G, Alacreu EU, Cabrio E, Rosso P, Villata S. Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech
IEEE
G. Damo, E. U. Alacreu, E. Cabrio, P. Rosso, and S. Villata, "Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/deconstructing-stereotypes-scope-conditioned-generation-for-effective-multilingual-counterspeech.