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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mircea-Adrian Tanase , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Costin-Gabriel Chiru

In recent times, the detection of hate-speech, offensive, or abusive language in online media has become an important topic in NLP research due to the exponential growth of social media and the propagation of such messages, as well as their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Andrei Paraschiv , Mihai Dascalu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

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

Offensive behaviour has become pervasive in the Internet community. Individuals take the advantage of anonymity in the cyber world and indulge in offensive communications which they may not consider in the real life. Governments, online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Vyshnav M T , Sachin Kumar S , Soman K P

Online social platforms have been the battlefield of users with different emotions and attitudes toward each other in recent years. While sexism has been considered as a category of hateful speech in the literature, there is no…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Sima Sharifirad , Borna Jafarpour , Stan Matwin

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

Nowadays, offensive content in social media has become a serious problem, and automatically detecting offensive language is an essential task. In this paper, we build an offensive language detection system, which combines multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenliang Dai , Tiezheng Yu , Zihan Liu , Pascale Fung

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

With rising concern around abusive and hateful behavior on social media platforms, we present an ensemble learning method to identify and analyze the linguistic properties of such content. Our stacked ensemble comprises of three machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Gaurav Verma , Niyati Chhaya , Vishwa Vinay

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Shuohuan Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Xuan Ouyang , Yu Sun

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

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

We introduce a new approach to tackle the problem of offensive language in online social media. Our approach uses unsupervised text style transfer to translate offensive sentences into non-offensive ones. We propose a new method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Igor Melnyk , Inkit Padhi

Cyberbullying is a prevalent and growing social problem due to the surge of social media technology usage. Minorities, women, and adolescents are among the common victims of cyberbullying. Despite the advancement of NLP technologies, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Thushari Atapattu , Mahen Herath , Georgia Zhang , Katrina Falkner

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 experimental landscape in natural language processing for social media is too fragmented. Each year, new shared tasks and datasets are proposed, ranging from classics like sentiment analysis to irony detection or emoji prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Francesco Barbieri , Jose Camacho-Collados , Leonardo Neves , Luis Espinosa-Anke

Abusive language detection has become an increasingly important task as a means to tackle this type of harmful content in social media. There has been a substantial body of research developing models for determining if a social media post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Raneem Alharthi , Rajwa Alharthi , Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Toxic online content has become a major issue in today's world due to an exponential increase in the use of internet by people of different cultures and educational background. Differentiating hate speech and offensive language is a key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Aditya Gaydhani , Vikrant Doma , Shrikant Kendre , Laxmi Bhagwat

Hate speech is a form of online harassment that involves the use of abusive language, and it is commonly seen in social media posts. This sort of harassment mainly focuses on specific group characteristics such as religion, gender,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Georgios K. Pitsilis