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In this paper, we explore the capacity of a language model-based method for grammatical error detection in detail. We first show that 5 to 10% of training data are enough for a BERT-based error detection method to achieve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Ryo Nagata , Manabu Kimura , Kazuaki Hanawa

The pervasiveness of offensive language on the social network has caused adverse effects on society, such as abusive behavior online. It is urgent to detect offensive language and curb its spread. Existing research shows that methods with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Zhenxiong Miao , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Rui Tang , Zhou Yang , Wenyi Tang

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

With the proliferation of social media, there has been a sharp increase in offensive content, particularly targeting vulnerable groups, exacerbating social problems such as hatred, racism, and sexism. Detecting offensive language use is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Toygar Tanyel , Besher Alkurdi , Serkan Ayvaz

Text classification systems have been proven vulnerable to adversarial text examples, modified versions of the original text examples that are often unnoticed by human eyes, yet can force text classification models to alter their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Norah Alshahrani , Saied Alshahrani , Esma Wali , Jeanna Matthews

Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved remarkable results in Semantic Sentence Matching. However, existing models still suffer from insufficient ability to capture subtle differences. Minor noise like word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sirui Wang , Di Liang , Jian Song , Yuntao Li , Wei Wu

Toxic online speech has become a crucial problem nowadays due to an exponential increase in the use of internet by people from different cultures and educational backgrounds. Differentiating if a text message belongs to hate speech and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Bencheng Wei , Jason Li , Ajay Gupta , Hafiza Umair , Atsu Vovor , Natalie Durzynski

In recent years BERT shows apparent advantages and great potential in natural language processing tasks. However, both training and applying BERT requires intensive time and resources for computing contextual language representations, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Tan Huang

Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identification. We not only need an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Marzieh Mozafari , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

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

Large language models (LLMs) are renowned for their exceptional capabilities, and applying to a wide range of applications. However, this widespread use brings significant vulnerabilities. Also, it is well observed that there are huge gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Md Abdur Rahman , Hossain Shahriar , Fan Wu , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

It is known that a deep neural network model pre-trained with large-scale data greatly improves the accuracy of various tasks, especially when there are resource constraints. However, the information needed to solve a given task can vary,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

We investigate the self-attention mechanism of BERT in a fine-tuning scenario for the classification of scientific articles over a taxonomy of research disciplines. We observe how self-attention focuses on words that are highly related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Andres Garcia-Silva , Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

Disparate biases associated with datasets and trained classifiers in hateful and abusive content identification tasks have raised many concerns recently. Although the problem of biased datasets on abusive language detection has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Marzieh Mozafari , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Sentiment analysis is the most basic NLP task to determine the polarity of text data. There has been a significant amount of work in the area of multilingual text as well. Still hate and offensive speech detection faces a challenge due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Abhishek Velankar , Hrushikesh Patil , Amol Gore , Shubham Salunke , Raviraj Joshi

This paper describes our approach to the task of identifying offensive languages in a multilingual setting. We investigate two data augmentation strategies: using additional semi-supervised labels with different thresholds and cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hwijeen Ahn , Jimin Sun , Chan Young Park , Jungyun Seo

In this paper, we present an approach to improve the robustness of BERT language models against word substitution-based adversarial attacks by leveraging adversarial perturbations for self-supervised contrastive learning. We create a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhao Meng , Yihan Dong , Mrinmaya Sachan , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Classifiers tend to propagate biases present in the data on which they are trained. Hence, it is important to understand how the demographic identities of the annotators of comments affect the fairness of the resulting model. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elizabeth Excell , Noura Al Moubayed