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The proliferation of hate speech and offensive comments on social media has become increasingly prevalent due to user activities. Such comments can have detrimental effects on individuals' psychological well-being and social behavior. While…

Social media often serves as a breeding ground for various hateful and offensive content. Identifying such content on social media is crucial due to its impact on the race, gender, or religion in an unprejudiced society. However, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mithun Das , Somnath Banerjee , Punyajoy Saha , Animesh Mukherjee

Online social networks are ubiquitous and user-friendly. Nevertheless, it is vital to detect and moderate offensive content to maintain decency and empathy. However, mining social media texts is a complex task since users don't adhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Vitthal Bhandari , Poonam Goyal

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

The increasing accessibility of the internet facilitated social media usage and encouraged individuals to express their opinions liberally. Nevertheless, it also creates a place for content polluters to disseminate offensive posts or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Omar Sharif , Eftekhar Hossain , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Hate Speech has become a major content moderation issue for online social media platforms. Given the volume and velocity of online content production, it is impossible to manually moderate hate speech related content on any platform. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Sudhanshu Mishra , Shivangi Prasad , Shubhanshu Mishra

Social media have been deliberately used for malicious purposes, including political manipulation and disinformation. Most research focuses on high-resource languages. However, malicious actors share content across countries and languages,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Samar Haider , Luca Luceri , Ashok Deb , Adam Badawy , Nanyun Peng , Emilio Ferrara

This study aims at investigating the effect of applying single learner machine learning approach and ensemble machine learning approach for offensive language detection on Arabic language. Classifying Arabic social media text is a very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fatemah Husain

This paper describes the system submitted by our team, KBCNMUJAL, for Task 2 of the shared task Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC), at Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, December…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Varsha Pathak , Manish Joshi , Prasad Joshi , Monica Mundada , Tanmay Joshi

Automated offensive language detection is essential in combating the spread of hate speech, particularly in social media. This paper describes our work on Offensive Language Identification in low resource Indic language Marathi. The problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tanmay Chavan , Shantanu Patankar , Aditya Kane , Omkar Gokhale , Raviraj Joshi

The exponential growths of social media and micro-blogging sites not only provide platforms for empowering freedom of expressions and individual voices, but also enables people to express anti-social behaviour like online harassment,…

Offensive language detection is an important and challenging task in natural language processing. We present our submissions to the OffensEval 2020 shared task, which includes three English sub-tasks: identifying the presence of offensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sajad Sotudeh , Tong Xiang , Hao-Ren Yao , Sean MacAvaney , Eugene Yang , Nazli Goharian , Ophir Frieder

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

With the growing presence of multilingual users on social media, detecting abusive language in code-mixed text has become increasingly challenging. Code-mixed communication, where users seamlessly switch between English and their native…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Manish Pandey , Nageshwar Prasad Yadav , Mokshada Adduru , Sawan Rai

This document describes our approach to building an Offensive Language Classifier. More specifically, the OffensEval 2019 competition required us to build three classifiers with slightly different goals: - Offensive language identification:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Silvia Sapora , Bogdan Lazarescu , Christo Lolov

The detection of offensive, hateful and profane language has become a critical challenge since many users in social networks are exposed to cyberbullying activities on a daily basis. In this paper, we present an analysis of combining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

The rapid spread of misinformation through social media platforms has raised concerns regarding its impact on public opinion. While misinformation is prevalent in other languages, the majority of research in this field has concentrated on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz , Cagri Coltekin

The increasing misuse of social media has become a concern; however, technological solutions are being developed to moderate its content effectively. This paper focuses on detecting abusive texts targeting women on social media platforms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Girma Yohannis Bade , Zahra Ahani , Olga Kolesnikova , José Luis Oropeza , Grigori Sidorov

Offensive language detection has been well studied in many languages, but it is lagging behind in low-resource languages, such as Hebrew. In this paper, we present a new offensive language corpus in Hebrew. A total of 15,881 tweets were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Nagham Hamad , Mustafa Jarrar , Mohammad Khalilia , Nadim Nashif

This paper describes the system submitted to Dravidian-Codemix-HASOC2021: Hate Speech and Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (Tamil-English and Malayalam-English). This task aims to identify offensive content in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sean Benhur , Kanchana Sivanraju