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Sentiment analysis is known as one of the most crucial tasks in the field of natural language processing and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of those prominent models that is commonly used for this aim. Although convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hossein Sadr , Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi , Mir Mohsen Pedram , Mohammad Teshnehlab

Hate speech detection is a crucial area of research in natural language processing, essential for ensuring online community safety. However, detecting implicit hate speech, where harmful intent is conveyed in subtle or indirect ways,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yumin Kim , Hwanhee Lee

Language Identification (LID) systems are used to classify the spoken language from a given audio sample and are typically the first step for many spoken language processing tasks, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Christian Bartz , Tom Herold , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide have been exposed to such prolonged and/or coordinated digital harassment.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Despoina Chatzakou , Ilias Leontiadis , Jeremy Blackburn , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gianluca Stringhini , Athena Vakali , Nicolas Kourtellis

The abstract outlines the problem of toxic comments on social media platforms, where individuals use disrespectful, abusive, and unreasonable language that can drive users away from discussions. This behavior is referred to as anti-social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 K. Poojitha , A. Sai Charish , M. Arun Kuamr Reddy , S. Ayyasamy

Most of neural approaches to relation classification have focused on finding short patterns that represent the semantic relation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and those approaches have generally achieved better performances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Jonggu Kim , Jong-Hyeok Lee

A key challenge for automatic hate-speech detection on social media is the separation of hate speech from other instances of offensive language. Lexical detection methods tend to have low precision because they classify all messages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Thomas Davidson , Dana Warmsley , Michael Macy , Ingmar Weber

Disclaimer: This paper is concerned with violent online harassment. To describe the subject at an adequate level of realism, examples of our collected tweets involve violent, threatening, vulgar and hateful speech language in the context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Mohammadreza Rezvan , Saeedeh Shekarpour , Faisal Alshargi , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Valerie L. Shalin , Amit Sheth

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and pervasive use of many different types of mobile computing devices make wireless communication spectrum a precious resource. In order to accommodate the still fast increasing number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qi Dong , Yu Chen , Xiaohua Li , Kai Zeng

Monitoring the biomedical literature for cases of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) is a critically important and time consuming task in pharmacovigilance. The development of computer assisted approaches to aid this process in different forms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Diego Saldana Miranda

Abusive speech on social media poses a persistent and evolving challenge, driven by the continuous emergence of novel slang and obfuscated terms designed to circumvent detection systems. In this work, we present a data efficient strategy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pritish N. Desai , Tanay Kewalramani , Srimanta Mandal

This paper focuses on the detection of potentially dangerous tendencies of social media users in an innovative multimodal way. We integrate Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) together. Firstly, we apply NLP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cuiqianhe Du , Chia-En Chiang , Tianyi Huang , Zikun Cui

The pervasiveness of abusive content on the internet can lead to severe psychological and physical harm. Significant effort in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research has been devoted to addressing this problem through abusive content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Svetlana Kiritchenko , Isar Nejadgholi , Kathleen C. Fraser

Robustness of machine learning models on ever-changing real-world data is critical, especially for applications affecting human well-being such as content moderation. New kinds of abusive language continually emerge in online discussions in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Isar Nejadgholi , Kathleen C. Fraser , Svetlana Kiritchenko

With the increased use of the internet and social networks for online discussions, the spread of toxic and inappropriate content on social networking sites has also increased. Several studies have been conducted in different languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ezzah Shoukat , Rabia Irfan , Iqra Basharat , Muhammad Ali Tahir , Sameen Shaukat

In this paper we revisit the problem of automatically identifying hate speech in posts from social media. We approach the task using a system based on minimalistic compositional Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). We tested our approach on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Gustavo Henrique Paetzold , Shervin Malmasi , Marcos Zampieri

In Twitter, there is a rising trend in abusive behavior which often leads to incivility. This trend is affecting users mentally and as a result they tend to leave Twitter and other such social networking sites thus depleting the active user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Suman Kalyan Maity , Aishik Chakraborty , Pawan Goyal , Animesh Mukherjee

The proliferation of social media platforms has led to an increase in the spread of hate speech, particularly targeting vulnerable communities. Unfortunately, existing methods for automatically identifying and blocking toxic language rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shiza Ali , Jeremy Blackburn , Gianluca Stringhini

The presence of abusive content on social media platforms is undesirable as it severely impedes healthy and safe social media interactions. While automatic abuse detection has been widely explored in textual domain, audio abuse detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Rini Sharon , Heet Shah , Debdoot Mukherjee , Vikram Gupta

The prevalence of offensive content on the internet, encompassing hate speech and cyberbullying, is a pervasive issue worldwide. Consequently, it has garnered significant attention from the machine learning (ML) and natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Alphaeus Dmonte , Tejas Arya , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Marcos Zampieri