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Developing a system to detect online offensive language is very important to the health and the security of online users. Studies have shown that cyberhate, online harassment and other misuses of technology are on the rise, particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Fatemah Husain , Ozlem Uzuner

This article improves the Transformer model based on swarm intelligence optimization algorithm, aiming to predict the emotions of employment related text content on American social media. Through text preprocessing, feature extraction, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Feiyang Wang , Qiaozhi Bao , Zixuan Wang , Yanlin Chen

The proliferation of social media platforms has led to an increase in the spread of hate speech, particularly targeting vulnerable communities. Unfortunately, existing methods for automatically identifying and blocking toxic language rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shiza Ali , Jeremy Blackburn , Gianluca Stringhini

Hierarchical models are utilized in a wide variety of problems which are characterized by task hierarchies, where predictions on smaller subtasks are useful for trying to predict a final task. Typically, neural networks are first trained…

In this paper we investigate the linguistic knowledge learned by a Neural Language Model (NLM) before and after a fine-tuning process and how this knowledge affects its predictions during several classification problems. We use a wide set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Alessio Miaschi , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi

Identifying adverse and hostile content on the web and more particularly, on social media, has become a problem of paramount interest in recent years. With their ever increasing popularity, fine-tuning of pretrained Transformer-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Tathagata Raha , Sayar Ghosh Roy , Ujwal Narayan , Zubair Abid , Vasudeva Varma

There is an increasing amount of literature that claims the brittleness of deep neural networks in dealing with adversarial examples that are created maliciously. It is unclear, however, how the models will perform in realistic scenarios…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Lichao Sun , Kazuma Hashimoto , Wenpeng Yin , Akari Asai , Jia Li , Philip Yu , Caiming Xiong

Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Mingfei Cheng , Zhiwei Yang , Liangliang Chen , Guang Chen

The last few years have witnessed an exponential rise in the propagation of offensive text on social media. Identification of this text with high precision is crucial for the well-being of society. Most of the existing approaches tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Divyam Goel , Raksha Sharma

The context-dependent nature of online aggression makes annotating large collections of data extremely difficult. Previously studied datasets in abusive language detection have been insufficient in size to efficiently train deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Younghun Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

This paper describes our submissions for the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H)2021 shared tasks. We participated in 2 tasks:(1) Classification, extraction and normalization of adverse drug effect (ADE) mentions in English tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Sidharth R , Abhiraj Tiwari , Parthivi Choubey , Saisha Kashyap , Sahil Khose , Kumud Lakara , Nishesh Singh , Ujjwal Verma

Identifying argument components from unstructured texts and predicting the relationships expressed among them are two primary steps of argument mining. The intrinsic complexity of these tasks demands powerful learning models. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Subhabrata Dutta , Jeevesh Juneja , Dipankar Das , Tanmoy Chakraborty

It is a challenging and complex task to acquire information from different regions of a disaster-affected area in a timely fashion. The extensive spread and reach of social media and networks allow people to share information in real-time.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Md. Yasin Kabir , Sanjay Madria

Online conversations are particularly susceptible to derailment, which can manifest itself in the form of toxic communication patterns including disrespectful comments and abuse. Forecasting conversation derailment predicts signs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Enas Altarawneh , Ameeta Agrawal , Michael Jenkin , Manos Papagelis

Recent developments in online communication and their usage in everyday life have caused an explosion in the amount of a new genre of text data, short text. Thus, the need to classify this type of text based on its content has a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bruno D. Ferreira-Saraiva , Zuil Pirola , João P. Matos-Carvalho , Manuel Marques-Pita

During the 2016 US elections Twitter experienced unprecedented levels of propaganda and fake news through the collaboration of bots and hired persons, the ramifications of which are still being debated. This work proposes an approach to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Erdem Beğenilmiş , Suzan Üsküdarlı

In our increasingly interconnected digital world, social media platforms have emerged as powerful channels for the dissemination of hate speech and offensive content. This work delves into the domain of hate speech detection, placing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ananya Joshi , Raviraj Joshi

In the digital era, the prevalence of depressive symptoms expressed on social media has raised serious concerns, necessitating advanced methodologies for timely detection. This paper addresses the challenge of interpretable depression…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Loris Belcastro , Riccardo Cantini , Fabrizio Marozzo , Domenico Talia , Paolo Trunfio

Twitter is one of the most popular social networks attracting millions of users, while a considerable proportion of online discourse is captured. It provides a simple usage framework with short messages and an efficient application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Alexander Shevtsov , Christos Tzagkarakis , Despoina Antonakaki , Sotiris Ioannidis

Hate speech detection research has predominantly focused on purely content-based methods, without exploiting any additional context. We briefly critique pros and cons of this task formulation. We then investigate profiling users by their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Prateek Chaudhry , Matthew Lease