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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

Antisocial behavior (ASB) on social media-including hate speech, harassment, and trolling-poses growing challenges for platform safety and societal wellbeing. While prior work has primarily focused on detecting harmful content after it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Anaïs Ollagnier

Hate speech is harmful content that directly attacks or promotes hatred against members of groups or individuals based on actual or perceived aspects of identity, such as racism, religion, or sexual orientation. This can affect social life…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Arijit Das , Somashree Nandy , Rupam Saha , Srijan Das , Diganta Saha

Despite the valuable social interactions that online media promote, these systems provide space for speech that would be potentially detrimental to different groups of people. The moderation of content imposed by many social media has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Lucas Henrique Costa de Lima , Julio Reis , Philipe Melo , Fabricio Murai , Fabricio Benevenuto

Online antisocial behavior, such as cyberbullying, harassment, and trolling, is a widespread problem that threatens free discussion and has negative physical and mental health consequences for victims and communities. While prior work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Ping Liu , Joshua Guberman , Libby Hemphill , Aron Culotta

Viewing social apps as sociotechnical systems makes clear that they are not mere pieces of technology but mediate human interaction and may unintentionally enable harmful behaviors like online harassment. As more users interact through…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sanjana Cheerla , Vaibhav Garg , Saikath Bhattacharya , Munindar P. Singh

The increased use of online social networks for the dissemination of information comes with the misuse of the internet for cyberbullying, cybercrime, spam, vandalism, amongst other things. To proactively identify abuse in the networks, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Abiola Osho , Ethan Tucker , George Amariucai

Abusive language is a massive problem in online social platforms. Existing abusive language detection techniques are particularly ill-suited to comments containing heterogeneous abusive language patterns, i.e., both abusive and non-abusive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Hongyu Gong , Alberto Valido , Katherine M. Ingram , Giulia Fanti , Suma Bhat , Dorothy L. Espelage

Automatic detection of online hate speech serves as a crucial step in the detoxification of the online discourse. Moreover, accurate classification can promote a better understanding of the proliferation of hate as a social phenomenon.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tom Marzea , Abraham Israeli , Oren Tsur

We use structural topic modeling to examine racial bias in data collected to train models to detect hate speech and abusive language in social media posts. We augment the abusive language dataset by adding an additional feature indicating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Thomas Davidson , Debasmita Bhattacharya

Our work advances an approach for predicting hate speech in social media, drawing out the critical need to consider the discussions that follow a post to successfully detect when hateful discourse may arise. Using graph transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Liam Hebert , Hong Yi Chen , Robin Cohen , Lukasz Golab

Online social networks have become a fundamental component of our everyday life. Unfortunately, these platforms are also a stage for hate speech. Popular social networks have regularized rules against hate speech. Consequently, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Nadav Schneider , Shimon Shouei , Saleem Ghantous , Elad Feldman

The problem of online threats and abuse could potentially be mitigated with a computational approach, where sources of abuse are better understood or identified through author profiling. However, abusive language constitutes a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Isabelle van der Vegt , Bennett Kleinberg , Paul Gill

Recently, social media platforms are heavily moderated to prevent the spread of online hate speech, which is usually fertile in toxic words and is directed toward an individual or a community. Owing to such heavy moderation, newer and more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Punyajoy Saha , Kiran Garimella , Narla Komal Kalyan , Saurabh Kumar Pandey , Pauras Mangesh Meher , Binny Mathew , Animesh Mukherjee

In recent years, abusive behavior has become a serious issue in online social networks. In this paper, we present a new corpus from a semi-anonymous social media platform, which contains the instances of offensive and neutral classes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Niloofar Safi Samghabadi , Afsheen Hatami , Mahsa Shafaei , Sudipta Kar , Thamar Solorio

The context-dependent nature of online aggression makes annotating large collections of data extremely difficult. Previously studied datasets in abusive language detection have been insufficient in size to efficiently train deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Younghun Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

Abuse on the Internet represents a significant societal problem of our time. Previous research on automated abusive language detection in Twitter has shown that community-based profiling of users is a promising technique for this task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pushkar Mishra , Marco Del Tredici , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

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

Online toxic content has grown into a pervasive phenomenon, intensifying during times of crisis, elections, and social unrest. A significant amount of research has been focused on detecting or analyzing toxic content using machine-learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Tim A. Majchrzak

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Erida Nurce , Jorgel Keci , Leon Derczynski