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Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Offensive Language Identification with Noisy Labels using Statistical Sampling and Post-Processing

Computation and Language 2020-05-04 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we present our participation in SemEval-2020 Task-12 Subtask-A (English Language) which focuses on offensive language identification from noisy labels. To this end, we developed a hybrid system with the BERT classifier trained with tweets selected using Statistical Sampling Algorithm (SA) and Post-Processed (PP) using an offensive wordlist. Our developed system achieved 34 th position with Macro-averaged F1-score (Macro-F1) of 0.90913 over both offensive and non-offensive classes. We further show comprehensive results and error analysis to assist future research in offensive language identification with noisy labels.

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@article{arxiv.2005.00295,
  title  = {Hitachi at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Offensive Language Identification with Noisy Labels using Statistical Sampling and Post-Processing},
  author = {Manikandan Ravikiran and Amin Ekant Muljibhai and Toshinori Miyoshi and Hiroaki Ozaki and Yuta Koreeda and Sakata Masayuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00295},
  year   = {2020}
}

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preprint v1, Under submission for SemEval 2020 Workshop

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