The ubiquity of offensive content on social media is a growing cause for concern among companies and government organizations. Recently, transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved state-of-the-art performance in detecting various forms of offensive content (e.g. hate speech, cyberbullying, and cyberaggression). However, the majority of these models are limited in their capabilities due to their encoder-only architecture, which restricts the number and types of labels in downstream tasks. Addressing these limitations, this study presents the first pre-trained model with encoder-decoder architecture for offensive language identification with text-to-text transformers (T5) trained on two large offensive language identification datasets; SOLID and CCTK. We investigate the effectiveness of combining two datasets and selecting an optimal threshold in semi-supervised instances in SOLID in the T5 retraining step. Our pre-trained T5 model outperforms other transformer-based models fine-tuned for offensive language detection, such as fBERT and HateBERT, in multiple English benchmarks. Following a similar approach, we also train the first multilingual pre-trained model for offensive language identification using mT5 and evaluate its performance on a set of six different languages (German, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Sinhala, and Spanish). The results demonstrate that this multilingual model achieves a new state-of-the-art on all the above datasets, showing its usefulness in multilingual scenarios. Our proposed T5-based models will be made freely available to the community.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur(印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校);National Institute of Technology Raipur(赖布尔国家理工学院)
The number of increased social media users has led to a lot of people misusing these platforms to spread offensive content and use hate speech. Manual tracking the vast amount of posts is impractical so it is necessary to devise automated methods to identify them quickly. Large language models are trained on a lot of data and they also make use of contextual embeddings. We fine-tune the large language models to help in our task. The data is also quite unbalanced; so we used a modified cross-entropy loss to tackle the issue. We observed that using a model which is fine-tuned in hindi corpora pe…
University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院)
As offensive language has become a rising issue for online communities and social media platforms, researchers have been investigating ways of coping with abusive content and developing systems to detect its different types: cyberbullying, hate speech, aggression, etc. With a few notable exceptions, most research on this topic so far has dealt with English. This is mostly due to the availability of language resources for English. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents the first Greek annotated dataset for offensive language identification: the Offensive Greek Tweet Dataset (OGTD). OG…
This paper describes the system submitted to Dravidian-Codemix-HASOC2021: Hate Speech and Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (Tamil-English and Malayalam-English). This task aims to identify offensive content in code-mixed comments/posts in Dravidian Languages collected from social media. Our approach utilizes pooling the last layers of pretrained transformer multilingual BERT for this task which helped us achieve rank nine on the leaderboard with a weighted average score of 0.61 for the Tamil-English dataset in subtask B. After the task deadline, we sampled the dataset u…
IBM Research(IBM研究);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院);Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU(卡塔尔计算研究学院,哈马德·本·哈利法大学)
The widespread use of offensive content in social media has led to an abundance of research in detecting language such as hate speech, cyberbullying, and cyber-aggression. Recent work presented the OLID dataset, which follows a taxonomy for offensive language identification that provides meaningful information for understanding the type and the target of offensive messages. However, it is limited in size and it might be biased towards offensive language as it was collected using keywords. In this work, we present SOLID, an expanded dataset, where the tweets were collected in a more principled …
University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院);Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU(哈马德·本·哈利法大学卡塔尔计算研究所);IBM Research(IBM研究院);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);Bhim Rao Ambedkar University(比姆·拉奥·安贝德卡尔大学)
As offensive content has become pervasive in social media, there has been much research in identifying potentially offensive messages. However, previous work on this topic did not consider the problem as a whole, but rather focused on detecting very specific types of offensive content, e.g., hate speech, cyberbulling, or cyber-aggression. In contrast, here we target several different kinds of offensive content. In particular, we model the task hierarchically, identifying the type and the target of offensive messages in social media. For this purpose, we complied the Offensive Language Identifi…
Laboratoire d’analyse statistique des textes - Statistical Analysis of Text Laboratory (LAST - SATLab)(文本统计分析实验室(LAST - SATLab));Institut de recherche en sciences psychologiques(心理科学研究所);Université catholique de Louvain(鲁汶天主教大学)
For automatically identifying hate speech and offensive content in tweets, a system based on a classical supervised algorithm only fed with character n-grams, and thus completely language-agnostic, is proposed by the SATLab team. After its optimization in terms of the feature weighting and the classifier parameters, it reached, in the multilingual HASOC 2021 challenge, a medium performance level in English, the language for which it is easy to develop deep learning approaches relying on many external linguistic resources, but a far better level for the two less resourced language, Hindi and Ma…
ITU Copenhagen(哥本哈根信息技术大学);Microsoft(微软);UN Development Programme(联合国开发计划署)
The ever growing usage of social media in the recent years has had a direct impact on the increased presence of hate speech and offensive speech in online platforms. Research on effective detection of such content has mainly focused on English and a few other widespread languages, while the leftover majority fail to have the same work put into them and thus cannot benefit from the steady advancements made in the field. In this paper we present \textsc{Shaj}, an annotated Albanian dataset for hate speech and offensive speech that has been constructed from user-generated content on various socia…
International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad(海得拉巴国际信息技术学院)
Hateful and Toxic content has become a significant concern in today's world due to an exponential rise in social media. The increase in hate speech and harmful content motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identification. In this task, we propose an approach to automatically classify hate speech and offensive content. We have used the datasets obtained from FIRE 2019 and 2020 shared tasks. We perform experiments by taking advantage of transfer learning models. We observed that the pre-trained BERT model and the multilingual-BERT m…
The presence of offensive language on social media platforms and the implications this poses is becoming a major concern in modern society. Given the enormous amount of content created every day, automatic methods are required to detect and deal with this type of content. Until now, most of the research has focused on solving the problem for the English language, while the problem is multilingual. We construct a Danish dataset containing user-generated comments from \textit{Reddit} and \textit{Facebook}. It contains user generated comments from various social media platforms, and to our knowle…
This paper is a contribution to the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC) 2021 shared task. Social media today is a hotbed of toxic and hateful conversations, in various languages. Recent news reports have shown that current models struggle to automatically identify hate posted in minority languages. Therefore, efficiently curbing hate speech is a critical challenge and problem of interest. We present a multilingual architecture using state-of-the-art transformer language models to jointly learn hate and offensive speech detection across three lang…
University of Hildesheim(希尔德斯海姆大学);LDRP-ITR;University of Duisburg-Essen(杜伊斯堡-埃森大学);Indian Institute of Science(印度科学理工学院);DA-IICT;University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院);University of Bamberg(班贝格大学);University of Bedfordshire(贝德福德大学);University of Leeds(利兹大学)
The widespread of offensive content online such as hate speech poses a growing societal problem. AI tools are necessary for supporting the moderation process at online platforms. For the evaluation of these identification tools, continuous experimentation with data sets in different languages are necessary. The HASOC track (Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification) is dedicated to develop benchmark data for this purpose. This paper presents the HASOC subtrack for English, Hindi, and Marathi. The data set was assembled from Twitter. This subtrack has two sub-tasks. Task A is a binary cl…
Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院);University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学)
Transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved state-of-the-art performance across various NLP tasks including the identification of offensive language and hate speech, an important problem in social media. In this paper, we present fBERT, a BERT model retrained on SOLID, the largest English offensive language identification corpus available with over $1.4$ million offensive instances. We evaluate fBERT's performance on identifying offensive content on multiple English datasets and we test several thresholds for selecting instances from SOLID. The fBERT model will be mad…
We describe our top-team solution to Task 1 for Hindi in the HASOC contest organised by FIRE 2019. The task is to identify hate speech and offensive language in Hindi. More specifically, it is a binary classification problem where a system is required to classify tweets into two classes: (a) \emph{Hate and Offensive (HOF)} and (b) \emph{Not Hate or Offensive (NOT)}. In contrast to the popular idea of pretraining word vectors (a.k.a. word embedding) with a large corpus from a general domain such as Wikipedia, we used a relatively small collection of relevant tweets (i.e. random and sarcasm twee…
Language Technologies Institute(语言技术研究所);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);Electrical and Computer Engineering(电气与计算机工程学院)
In this paper we present our submission for the EACL 2021-Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian languages. Our final system is an ensemble of mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa models which leverage task-adaptive pre-training of multilingual BERT models with a masked language modeling objective. Our system was ranked 1st for Kannada, 2nd for Malayalam and 3rd for Tamil.
This paper presents our system entitled `LIIR' for SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2). We have participated in sub-task A for English, Danish, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish languages. We adapt and fine-tune the BERT and Multilingual Bert models made available by Google AI for English and non-English languages respectively. For the English language, we use a combination of two fine-tuned BERT models. For other languages we propose a cross-lingual augmentation approach in order to enrich training data and we use Multilingual BERT to…
University of Hildesheim(希尔德斯海姆大学);LDRP-ITR;University of Duisburg-Essen(杜伊斯堡-埃森大学);University of Bedfordshire(贝德福德大学);University of Leeds(利兹大学);University of Bamberg(班贝格大学);Dalhousie University(达尔豪斯大学);DA-IICT
With the growth of social media, the spread of hate speech is also increasing rapidly. Social media are widely used in many countries. Also Hate Speech is spreading in these countries. This brings a need for multilingual Hate Speech detection algorithms. Much research in this area is dedicated to English at the moment. The HASOC track intends to provide a platform to develop and optimize Hate Speech detection algorithms for Hindi, German and English. The dataset is collected from a Twitter archive and pre-classified by a machine learning system. HASOC has two sub-task for all three languages: …
ICC, CONICET(阿根廷国家科学与技术研究理事会计算机与通信研究所);Universidad de Buenos Aires(布宜诺斯艾利斯大学);University of Chile(智利大学);IMFD, Chile(智利千禧数据基金会);CONICET(阿根廷国家科学与技术研究理事会);Universidad Nacional de Córdoba(国立科尔多瓦大学)
This paper describes our participation in SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Detection. We jointly-trained a single model by fine-tuning Multilingual BERT to tackle the task across all the proposed languages: English, Danish, Turkish, Greek and Arabic. Our single model had competitive results, with a performance close to top-performing systems in spite of sharing the same parameters across all languages. Zero-shot and few-shot experiments were also conducted to analyze the transference performance among these languages. We make our code public for further research
Guardians of Discourse: Evaluating LLMs on Multilingual Offensive Language Detection
School of AI and Advanced Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西交利物浦大学人工智能与先进计算学院);School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西交利物浦大学先进技术学院);College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology(浙江工业大学计算机科学与技术学院);Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学澳大利亚人工智能研究所)
University of Tyumen(秋明大学);Thales Canada(泰雷兹加拿大公司)
This paper describes neural models developed for the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages Shared Task 2021. Our team called neuro-utmn-thales participated in two tasks on binary and fine-grained classification of English tweets that contain hate, offensive, and profane content (English Subtasks A & B) and one task on identification of problematic content in Marathi (Marathi Subtask A). For English subtasks, we investigate the impact of additional corpora for hate speech detection to fine-tune transformer models. We also apply a one-vs-rest approa…
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad(海得拉巴国际信息技术研究所)
Detecting and classifying instances of hate in social media text has been a problem of interest in Natural Language Processing in the recent years. Our work leverages state of the art Transformer language models to identify hate speech in a multilingual setting. Capturing the intent of a post or a comment on social media involves careful evaluation of the language style, semantic content and additional pointers such as hashtags and emojis. In this paper, we look at the problem of identifying whether a Twitter post is hateful and offensive or not. We further discriminate the detected toxic cont…
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur(印度理工学院坎普尔分校);University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校)
Hate Speech has become a major content moderation issue for online social media platforms. Given the volume and velocity of online content production, it is impossible to manually moderate hate speech related content on any platform. In this paper we utilize a multi-task and multi-lingual approach based on recently proposed Transformer Neural Networks to solve three sub-tasks for hate speech. These sub-tasks were part of the 2019 shared task on hate speech and offensive content (HASOC) identification in Indo-European languages. We expand on our submission to that competition by utilizing multi…
Aston University(阿斯顿大学);University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Birmingham City University(伯明翰城市大学);University of Münster(明斯特大学);George Mason University(乔治梅森大学)
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology(吉大港工程技术大学)
The increasing accessibility of the internet facilitated social media usage and encouraged individuals to express their opinions liberally. Nevertheless, it also creates a place for content polluters to disseminate offensive posts or contents. Most of such offensive posts are written in a cross-lingual manner and can easily evade the online surveillance systems. This paper presents an automated system that can identify offensive text from multilingual code-mixed data. In the task, datasets provided in three languages including Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada code-mixed with English where particip…
This article describes Amobee's participation in "HatEval: Multilingual detection of hate speech against immigrants and women in Twitter" (task 5) and "OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media" (task 6). The goal of task 5 was to detect hate speech targeted to women and immigrants. The goal of task 6 was to identify and categorized offensive language in social media, and identify offense target. We present a novel type of convolutional neural network called "Multiple Choice CNN" (MC-CNN) that we used over our newly developed contextual embedding, Rozental et …
University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Birmingham City University(伯明翰城市大学)
In this paper, we describe the team \textit{BRUMS} entry to OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media in SemEval-2020. The OffensEval organizers provided participants with annotated datasets containing posts from social media in Arabic, Danish, English, Greek and Turkish. We present a multilingual deep learning model to identify offensive language in social media. Overall, the approach achieves acceptable evaluation scores, while maintaining flexibility between languages.
This paper describes the system submitted to Dravidian-Codemix-HASOC2020: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Dravidian languages (Tamil-English and Malayalam-English). The task aims to identify offensive language in code-mixed dataset of comments/posts in Dravidian languages collected from social media. We participated in both Sub-task A, which aims to identify offensive content in mixed-script (mixture of Native and Roman script) and Sub-task B, which aims to identify offensive content in Roman script, for Dravidian languages. In order to address these tasks, we proposed pre-…
Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院);Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);IBM Research(IBM研究院);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);IT University Copenhagen(哥本哈根信息技术大学);University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);University of Tübingen(图宾根大学)
We present the results and main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020). The task involves three subtasks corresponding to the hierarchical taxonomy of the OLID schema (Zampieri et al., 2019a) from OffensEval 2019. The task featured five languages: English, Arabic, Danish, Greek, and Turkish for Subtask A. In addition, English also featured Subtasks B and C. OffensEval 2020 was one of the most popular tasks at SemEval-2020 attracting a large number of participants across all subtasks and also across all languages. A t…
Boosting Accuracy and Interpretability in Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Through Layer Freezing and Explainable AI
Department of Computer Science(计算机科学系);University of South Carolina(南卡罗来纳大学);Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering(土木、环境与海洋工程系);Stevens Institute of Technology(史蒂文斯理工学院);School of Computing(计算学院);University of Nebraska–Lincoln(内布拉斯加大学林肯分校);Bowling Green State University(鲍灵格林州立大学)
Sogang University(西江大学);Seoul National University(首尔大学);Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学语言技术研究所)
This paper describes our approach to the task of identifying offensive languages in a multilingual setting. We investigate two data augmentation strategies: using additional semi-supervised labels with different thresholds and cross-lingual transfer with data selection. Leveraging the semi-supervised dataset resulted in performance improvements compared to the baseline trained solely with the manually-annotated dataset. We propose a new metric, Translation Embedding Distance, to measure the transferability of instances for cross-lingual data selection. We also introduce various preprocessing s…
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University(穆罕默德六世理工大学);Cadi Ayyad University(卡迪·阿亚德大学)
The prevalence of toxic content on social media platforms, such as hate speech, offensive language, and misogyny, presents serious challenges to our interconnected society. These challenging issues have attracted widespread attention in Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. In this paper, we present the submitted systems to the first Arabic Misogyny Identification shared task. We investigate three multi-task learning models as well as their single-task counterparts. In order to encode the input text, our models rely on the pre-trained MARBERT language model. The overall obtained results…
University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院)
The interest in offensive content identification in social media has grown substantially in recent years. Previous work has dealt mostly with post level annotations. However, identifying offensive spans is useful in many ways. To help coping with this important challenge, we present MUDES, a multilingual system to detect offensive spans in texts. MUDES features pre-trained models, a Python API for developers, and a user-friendly web-based interface. A detailed description of MUDES' components is presented in this paper.
Technische Universität Berlin(柏林工业大学);German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)(德国人工智能研究中心(DFKI))
The detection of hate speech online has become an important task, as offensive language such as hurtful, obscene and insulting content can harm marginalized people or groups. This paper presents TU Berlin team experiments and results on the task 1A and 1B of the shared task on hate speech and offensive content identification in Indo-European languages 2021. The success of different Natural Language Processing models is evaluated for the respective subtasks throughout the competition. We tested different models based on recurrent neural networks in word and character levels and transfer learnin…
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics(Insight SFI数据分析研究中心);National University of Ireland Galway(爱尔兰国立大学戈尔韦分校);ULTRA Arts and Science College(ULTRA文理学院);Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala(印度信息技术与管理学院喀拉拉分校);Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering(斯里西瓦苏布拉马尼亚纳达尔工程学院);Sri Krishna Adithya College of Arts and Science(斯里克里希纳阿迪蒂亚文理学院);Hindusthan College of Arts and Science(印度斯坦文理学院)
The increased proliferation of abusive content on social media platforms has a negative impact on online users. The dread, dislike, discomfort, or mistrust of lesbian, gay, transgender or bisexual persons is defined as homophobia/transphobia. Homophobic/transphobic speech is a type of offensive language that may be summarized as hate speech directed toward LGBT+ people, and it has been a growing concern in recent years. Online homophobia/transphobia is a severe societal problem that can make online platforms poisonous and unwelcome to LGBT+ people while also attempting to eliminate equality, d…
Offensive language detection is one of the most challenging problem in the natural language processing field, being imposed by the rising presence of this phenomenon in online social media. This paper describes our Transformer-based solutions for identifying offensive language on Twitter in five languages (i.e., English, Arabic, Danish, Greek, and Turkish), which was employed in Subtask A of the Offenseval 2020 shared task. Several neural architectures (i.e., BERT, mBERT, Roberta, XLM-Roberta, and ALBERT), pre-trained using both single-language and multilingual corpora, were fine-tuned and com…
This short paper presents the design decisions taken and challenges encountered in completing SemEval Task 6, which poses the problem of identifying and categorizing offensive language in tweets. Our proposed solutions explore Deep Learning techniques, Linear Support Vector classification and Random Forests to identify offensive tweets, to classify offenses as targeted or untargeted and eventually to identify the target subject type.
This paper describes Galileo's performance in SemEval-2020 Task 12 on detecting and categorizing offensive language in social media. For Offensive Language Identification, we proposed a multi-lingual method using Pre-trained Language Models, ERNIE and XLM-R. For offensive language categorization, we proposed a knowledge distillation method trained on soft labels generated by several supervised models. Our team participated in all three sub-tasks. In Sub-task A - Offensive Language Identification, we ranked first in terms of average F1 scores in all languages. We are also the only team which ra…
Institute of Management and Research, Jalgaon, Affil- KBC North Maharashtra University(贾尔冈管理与研究学院,隶属于KBC北马哈拉施特拉大学);School of Computer Sciences, KBC North Maharashtra University(KBC北马哈拉施特拉大学计算机科学学院);Copenhagen Business School(哥本哈根商学院);BMCC college of commerce, Pune(BMCC商学院,浦那)
This paper describes the system submitted by our team, KBCNMUJAL, for Task 2 of the shared task Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC), at Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, December 16-20, 2020, Hyderabad, India. The datasets of two Dravidian languages Viz. Malayalam and Tamil of size 4000 observations, each were shared by the HASOC organizers. These datasets are used to train the machine using different machine learning algorithms, based on classification and regression models. The datasets consist of tweets or YouTube comments with two c…
Jordan University of Science and Technology(约旦科技大学)
This research presents our team KEIS@JUST participation at SemEval-2020 Task 12 which represents shared task on multilingual offensive language. We participated in all the provided languages for all subtasks except sub-task-A for the English language. Two main approaches have been developed the first is performed to tackle both languages Arabic and English, a weighted ensemble consists of Bi-GRU and CNN followed by Gaussian noise and global pooling layer multiplied by weights to improve the overall performance. The second is performed for other languages, a transfer learning from BERT beside t…
The paper presents the submission of the team indicnlp@kgp to the EACL 2021 shared task "Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages." The task aimed to classify different offensive content types in 3 code-mixed Dravidian language datasets. The work leverages existing state of the art approaches in text classification by incorporating additional data and transfer learning on pre-trained models. Our final submission is an ensemble of an AWD-LSTM based model along with 2 different transformer model architectures based on BERT and RoBERTa. We achieved weighted-average F1 scores of 0.…
Offensive Language detection in social media platforms has been an active field of research over the past years. In non-native English spoken countries, social media users mostly use a code-mixed form of text in their posts/comments. This poses several challenges in the offensive content identification tasks, and considering the low resources available for Tamil, the task becomes much harder. The current study presents extensive experiments using multiple deep learning, and transfer learning models to detect offensive content on YouTube. We propose a novel and flexible approach of selective tr…
Sharif University of Technology(谢里夫理工大学);NazarBin(纳扎尔宾)
This paper presents the models submitted by Ghmerti team for subtasks A and B of the OffensEval shared task at SemEval 2019. OffensEval addresses the problem of identifying and categorizing offensive language in social media in three subtasks; whether or not a content is offensive (subtask A), whether it is targeted (subtask B) towards an individual, a group, or other entities (subtask C). The proposed approach includes character-level Convolutional Neural Network, word-level Recurrent Neural Network, and some preprocessing. The performance achieved by the proposed model for subtask A is 77.93…
This paper presents the different models submitted by the LT@Helsinki team for the SemEval 2020 Shared Task 12. Our team participated in sub-tasks A and C; titled offensive language identification and offense target identification, respectively. In both cases we used the so-called Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformer (BERT), a model pre-trained by Google and fine-tuned by us on the OLID and SOLID datasets. The results show that offensive tweet classification is one of several language-based tasks where BERT can achieve state-of-the-art results.
Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway(爱尔兰国立高威大学数据科学研究所);National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal(卡纳塔克邦苏拉特卡尔国家理工学院);National Institute of Technology, Trichy(特里奇国家理工学院);Vellore Institute of Technology(韦洛尔理工学院);Eastern University, Sri Lanka(斯里兰卡东方大学);Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala(喀拉拉邦印度信息技术与管理学院);Thiagarajar College of Engineering(蒂亚加拉贾工程学院)
Offensive content moderation is vital in social media platforms to support healthy online discussions. However, their prevalence in codemixed Dravidian languages is limited to classifying whole comments without identifying part of it contributing to offensiveness. Such limitation is primarily due to the lack of annotated data for offensive spans. Accordingly, in this shared task, we provide Tamil-English code-mixed social comments with offensive spans. This paper outlines the dataset so released, methods, and results of the submitted systems
University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院)
Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern to companies and government organizations. Several studies have been recently published investigating methods to detect the various forms of such content (e.g. hate speech, cyberbulling, and cyberaggression). The clear majority of these studies deal with English partially because most annotated datasets available contain English data. In this paper, we take advantage of English data available by applying cross-lingual contextual word embeddings and transfer learning to make predictions in languages with less resources. We …
National University of Ireland Galway(爱尔兰国立大学戈尔韦分校);ULTRA Arts and Science College(ULTRA艺术与科学学院);Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala(印度喀拉拉邦信息技术与管理学院)
This paper describes the development of a multilingual, manually annotated dataset for three under-resourced Dravidian languages generated from social media comments. The dataset was annotated for sentiment analysis and offensive language identification for a total of more than 60,000 YouTube comments. The dataset consists of around 44,000 comments in Tamil-English, around 7,000 comments in Kannada-English, and around 20,000 comments in Malayalam-English. The data was manually annotated by volunteer annotators and has a high inter-annotator agreement in Krippendorff's alpha. The dataset contai…
SemEval-2020 Task 12 was OffenseEval: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (Zampieri et al., 2020). The task was subdivided into multiple languages and datasets were provided for each one. The task was further divided into three sub-tasks: offensive language identification, automatic categorization of offense types, and offense target identification. I have participated in the task-C, that is, offense target identification. For preparing the proposed system, I have made use of Deep Learning networks like LSTMs and frameworks like Keras which combine the bag of words m…
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway(爱尔兰国立大学戈尔韦分校Insight数据分析研究中心);TR Labs, Thomson Reuters(汤森路透TR实验室);ULTRA Arts and Science College(ULTRA文理学院);National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal(卡纳塔克邦苏拉特卡尔国立技术学院);Eastern University(东方大学);National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli(蒂鲁吉拉帕利国立技术学院);SRM Institute of Science and Technology(SRM科学技术学院)
With the fast growth of mobile computing and Web technologies, offensive language has become more prevalent on social networking platforms. Since offensive language identification in local languages is essential to moderate the social media content, in this paper we work with three Dravidian languages, namely Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada, that are under-resourced. We present an evaluation task at FIRE 2020- HASOC-DravidianCodeMix and DravidianLangTech at EACL 2021, designed to provide a framework for comparing different approaches to this problem. This paper describes the data creation, defin…