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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…

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The detection and identification of toxic comments are conducive to creating a civilized and harmonious Internet environment. In this experiment, we collected various data sets related to toxic comments. Because of the characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhichang Wang , Qipeng Zhu

Abusive language is a concerning problem in online social media. Past research on detecting abusive language covers different platforms, languages, demographies, etc. However, models trained using these datasets do not perform well in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Punyajoy Saha , Divyanshu Sheth , Kushal Kedia , Binny Mathew , Animesh Mukherjee

Given the number of Arabic speakers worldwide and the notably large amount of content in the web today in some fields such as law, medicine, or even news, documents of considerable length are produced regularly. Classifying those documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Muhammad AL-Qurishi

Arabic dialect identification is a complex problem for a number of inherent properties of the language itself. In this paper, we present the experiments conducted, and the models developed by our competing team, Mawdoo3 AI, along the way to…

We present our HABERTOR model for detecting hatespeech in large scale user-generated content. Inspired by the recent success of the BERT model, we propose several modifications to BERT to enhance the performance on the downstream hatespeech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Thanh Tran , Yifan Hu , Changwei Hu , Kevin Yen , Fei Tan , Kyumin Lee , Serim Park

Recent work has shown evidence that the knowledge acquired by multilingual BERT (mBERT) has two components: a language-specific and a language-neutral one. This paper analyses the relationship between them, in the context of fine-tuning on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Marc Tanti , Lonneke van der Plas , Claudia Borg , Albert Gatt

Offensive language detection is increasingly crucial for maintaining a civilized social media platform and deploying pre-trained language models. However, this task in Chinese is still under exploration due to the scarcity of reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jiawen Deng , Jingyan Zhou , Hao Sun , Chujie Zheng , Fei Mi , Helen Meng , Minlie Huang

Personal attacks in the context of social media conversations often lead to fast-paced derailment, leading to even more harmful exchanges being made. State-of-the-art systems for the detection of such conversational derailment often make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Steven Leung , Filippos Papapolyzos

This paper describes SalamNET, an Arabic offensive language detection system that has been submitted to SemEval 2020 shared task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. Our approach focuses on applying multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Fatemah Husain , Jooyeon Lee , Samuel Henry , Ozlem Uzuner

Targeted Sentiment Analysis aims to extract sentiment towards a particular target from a given text. It is a field that is attracting attention due to the increasing accessibility of the Internet, which leads people to generate an enormous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 M. Melih Mutlu , Arzucan Özgür

Deep neural networks have been adopted successfully in hate speech detection problems. Nevertheless, the effect of the word embedding models on the neural network's performance has not been appropriately examined in the literature. In our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Safa Alsafari , Samira Sadaoui , Malek Mouhoub

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has enabled large-scale AI applications to land in the market and practice. However, while AI technology has brought many conveniences to people in the productization process,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shaokang Cai , Dezhi Han , Zibin Zheng , Dun Li , NoelCrespi

The volume of machine-generated content online has grown dramatically due to the widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs), leading to new challenges for content moderation systems. Conventional content moderation classifiers, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shaz Furniturewala , Arkaitz Zubiaga

With the growth of content on social media networks, enterprises and services providers have become interested in identifying the questions of their customers. Tracking these questions become very challenging with the growth of text that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ahmed Ramzy , Ahmed Elazab

Word order variances generally exist in different languages. In this paper, we hypothesize that cross-lingual models that fit into the word order of the source language might fail to handle target languages. To verify this hypothesis, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Pascale Fung

Emotion detection can provide us with a window into understanding human behavior. Due to the complex dynamics of human emotions, however, constructing annotated datasets to train automated models can be expensive. Thus, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Sabit Hassan , Shaden Shaar , Kareem Darwish

The usage of more than one language in the same text is referred to as Code Mixed. It is evident that there is a growing degree of adaption of the use of code-mixed data, especially English with a regional language, on social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Gauri Takawane , Abhishek Phaltankar , Varad Patwardhan , Aryan Patil , Raviraj Joshi , Mukta S. Takalikar

This paper introduces a method for detecting inappropriately targeting language in online conversations by integrating crowd and expert annotations with ChatGPT. We focus on English conversation threads from Reddit, examining comments that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Baran Barbarestani , Isa Maks , Piek Vossen

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