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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Marcos Zampieri , Shervin Malmasi , Preslav Nakov , Sara Rosenthal , Noura Farra , Ritesh Kumar

The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cyber-bullying, is a global phenomenon. This has sparked interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) communities, motivating the…

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,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Zeses Pitenis , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

The presence of offensive language on social media is very common motivating platforms to invest in strategies to make communities safer. This includes developing robust machine learning systems capable of recognizing offensive content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Mrinal Chaudhari , Saurabh Gaikwad , Prajwal Krishna , Mayuresh Nene , Shrunali Paygude

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2019 Task 6 on Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval). The task was based on a new dataset, the Offensive Language Identification Dataset (OLID),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Marcos Zampieri , Shervin Malmasi , Preslav Nakov , Sara Rosenthal , Noura Farra , Ritesh Kumar

Identifying offensive content in social media is vital for creating safe online communities. Several recent studies have addressed this problem by creating datasets for various languages. In this paper, we explore offensive language…

With the growing use of social media and its availability, many instances of the use of offensive language have been observed across multiple languages and domains. This phenomenon has given rise to the growing need to detect the offensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kartikey Pant , Tanvi Dadu

The ability to accurately detect and filter offensive content automatically is important to ensure a rich and diverse digital discourse. Trolling is a type of hurtful or offensive content that is prevalent in social media, but is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Hitkul , Karmanya Aggarwal , Pakhi Bamdev , Debanjan Mahata , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Diptanu Sarkar , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Alexander Ororbia

Detecting harmful content on social media, such as Twitter, is made difficult by the fact that the seemingly simple yes/no classification conceals a significant amount of complexity. Unfortunately, while several datasets have been collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Saad Almohaimeed , Saleh Almohaimeed , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Bogdan Carbunar , Ladislau Bölöni

The widespread use of text-based communication on social media-through chats, comments, and microblogs-has improved user interaction but has also led to an increase in offensive content, including hate speech, racism, and other forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Reem Alothman , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

Offensive language is pervasive in social media. Individuals frequently take advantage of the perceived anonymity of computer-mediated communication, using this to engage in behavior that many of them would not consider in real life. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Nikhil Oswal

Detecting offensive language on Twitter has many applications ranging from detecting/predicting bullying to measuring polarization. In this paper, we focus on building a large Arabic offensive tweet dataset. We introduce a method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hamdy Mubarak , Ammar Rashed , Kareem Darwish , Younes Samih , Ahmed Abdelali

The widespread use of social media necessitates reliable and efficient detection of offensive content to mitigate harmful effects. Although sophisticated models perform well on individual datasets, they often fail to generalize due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Huy Nghiem , Hal Daumé

Detection of offensive language in social media is one of the key challenges for social media. Researchers have proposed many advanced methods to accomplish this task. In this report, we try to use the learnings from their approach and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Nikhil Chilwant , Syed Taqi Abbas Rizvi , Hassan Soliman

On social media platforms, hateful and offensive language negatively impact the mental well-being of users and the participation of people from diverse backgrounds. Automatic methods to detect offensive language have largely relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Rishav Hada , Sohi Sudhir , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Saif M. Mohammad , Ekaterina Shutova

We provide a comprehensive investigation of different custom and off-the-shelf architectures as well as different approaches to generating feature vectors for offensive language detection. We also show that these approaches work well on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Harrison Uglow , Martin Zlocha , Szymon Zmyślony

Since state-of-the-art approaches to offensive language detection rely on supervised learning, it is crucial to quickly adapt them to the continuously evolving scenario of social media. While several approaches have been proposed to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Elisa Leonardelli , Stefano Menini , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Marco Guerini , Sara Tonelli

As open-ended human-chatbot interaction becomes commonplace, sensitive content detection gains importance. In this work, we propose a two stage semi-supervised approach to bootstrap large-scale data for automatic sensitive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Chandra Khatri , Behnam Hedayatnia , Rahul Goel , Anushree Venkatesh , Raefer Gabriel , Arindam Mandal

The growing prevalence and rapid evolution of offensive language in social media amplify the complexities of detection, particularly highlighting the challenges in identifying such content across diverse languages. This survey presents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga
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