Can Interpretability Layouts Influence Human Perception of Offensive
  Sentences?
Thiago Freitas dos Santos Nardine Osman Marco Schorlemmer
This paper conducts a user study to assess whether three machine learning
(ML) interpretability layouts can influence participants' views when evaluating
sentences containing hate speech, focusing on the "Misogyny" and "Racism"
classes. Given the existence of divergent conclusions in the literature, we
provide empirical evidence on using ML interpretability in online communities
through statistical and qualitative analyses of questionnaire responses. The
Generalized Additive Model estimates participants' ratings, incorporating
within-subject and between-subject designs. While our statistical analysis
indicates that none of the interpretability layouts significantly influences
participants' views, our qualitative analysis demonstrates the advantages of ML
interpretability: 1) triggering participants to provide corrective feedback in
case of discrepancies between their views and the model, and 2) providing
insights to evaluate a model's behavior beyond traditional performance metrics.