English
Related papers

Related papers: Toxicity Detection for Indic Multilingual Social M…

200 papers

Use of social media has grown dramatically during the last few years. Users follow informal languages in communicating through social media. The language of communication is often mixed in nature, where people transcribe their regional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Deepak Gupta , Shubham Tripathi , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Despite the recent successes of transformer-based models in terms of effectiveness on a variety of tasks, their decisions often remain opaque to humans. Explanations are particularly important for tasks like offensive language or toxicity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Tong Xiang , Sean MacAvaney , Eugene Yang , Nazli Goharian

As social-media platforms emerge and evolve faster than the regulations meant to oversee them, automated detoxification might serve as a timely tool for moderators to enforce safe discourse at scale. We here describe our submission to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Trung Duc Anh Dang , Ferdinando Pio D'Elia

The rise in the number of social media users has led to an increase in the hateful content posted online. In countries like India, where multiple languages are spoken, these abhorrent posts are from an unusual blend of code-switched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kshitij Rajput , Raghav Kapoor , Kaushal Rai , Preeti Kaur

The advancement in technology and accessibility of internet to each individual is revolutionizing the real time information. The liberty to express your thoughts without passing through any credibility check is leading to dissemination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Shivangi Singhal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Abusive content detection in spoken text can be addressed by performing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and leveraging advancements in natural language processing. However, ASR models introduce latency and often perform sub-optimally for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Vikram Gupta , Rini Sharon , Ramit Sawhney , Debdoot Mukherjee

This paper describes our participation in the DEtection of TOXicity in comments In Spanish (DETOXIS) shared task 2021 at the 3rd Workshop on Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum. The shared task is divided into two related classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula , Ipek Baris Schlicht

In recent years, online social networks have allowed worldwide users to meet and discuss. As guarantors of these communities, the administrators of these platforms must prevent users from adopting inappropriate behaviors. This verification…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Noé Cecillon , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linarès

The complete freedom of expression in social media has its costs especially in spreading harmful and abusive content that may induce people to act accordingly. Therefore, the need of detecting automatically such a content becomes an urgent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Slim Gharbi , Heger Arfaoui , Hatem Haddad , Mayssa Kchaou

Semantic evaluation in low-resource languages remains a major challenge in NLP. While sentence transformers have shown strong performance in high-resource settings, their effectiveness in Indic languages is underexplored due to a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Nishant Tanksale , Tanmay Kokate , Darshan Gohad , Sarvadnyaa Barate , Raviraj Joshi

This paper describes the system submitted to Dravidian-Codemix-HASOC2020: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Dravidian languages (Tamil-English and Malayalam-English). The task aims to identify offensive language in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Gaurav Arora

Lack of diverse perspectives causes neutrality bias in Wikipedia content leading to millions of worldwide readers getting exposed by potentially inaccurate information. Hence, neutrality bias detection and mitigation is a critical problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ankita Maity , Anubhav Sharma , Rudra Dhar , Tushar Abhishek , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Detecting online sexual predatory behaviours and abusive language on social media platforms has become a critical area of research due to the growing concerns about online safety, especially for vulnerable populations such as children and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Thanh Thi Nguyen , Campbell Wilson , Janis Dalins

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

Toxic comment classification has become an active research field with many recently proposed approaches. However, while these approaches address some of the task's challenges others still remain unsolved and directions for further research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Betty van Aken , Julian Risch , Ralf Krestel , Alexander Löser

Social media communication has become a significant part of daily activity in modern societies. For this reason, ensuring safety in social media platforms is a necessity. Use of dangerous language such as physical threats in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Ali Alshehri , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Nowadays peoples are actively involved in giving comments and reviews on social networking websites and other websites like shopping websites, news websites etc. large number of people everyday share their opinion on the web, results is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Richa Sharma , Shweta Nigam , Rekha Jain

The prevalence and impact of toxic discussions online have made content moderation crucial.Automated systems can play a vital role in identifying toxicity, and reducing the reliance on human moderation.Nevertheless, identifying toxic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Senjuti Dutta , Sid Mittal , Sherol Chen , Deepak Ramachandran , Ravi Rajakumar , Ian Kivlichan , Sunny Mak , Alena Butryna , Praveen Paritosh

Toxic language remains an ongoing challenge on social media platforms, presenting significant issues for users and communities. This paper provides a cross-topic and cross-lingual analysis of toxicity in Reddit conversations. We collect 1.5…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa , Ilia Markov , Piek Vossen

The advent of social media transformed interpersonal communication and information consumption processes. This digital landscape accommodates user intentions, also resulting in an increase of offensive language and harmful behavior.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Kasper Cools , Gideon Mailette de Buy Wenniger , Clara Maathuis