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The struggle of social media platforms to moderate content in a timely manner, encourages users to abuse such platforms to spread vulgar or abusive language, which, when performed repeatedly becomes cyberbullying a social problem taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tanjim Mahmud , Michal Ptaszynski , Juuso Eronen , Fumito Masui

Existing research on detecting cyberbullying incidents on social media has primarily concentrated on harassment and is typically approached as a binary classification task. However, cyberbullying encompasses various forms, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Peiling Yi , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Yunfei Long

While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online. Recent studies report that cyberbullying constitutes a growing problem among youngsters.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Cynthia Van Hee , Gilles Jacobs , Chris Emmery , Bart Desmet , Els Lefever , Ben Verhoeven , Guy De Pauw , Walter Daelemans , Véronique Hoste

Recent work has exhibited the surprising cross-lingual abilities of multilingual BERT (M-BERT) -- surprising since it is trained without any cross-lingual objective and with no aligned data. In this work, we provide a comprehensive study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Karthikeyan K , Zihan Wang , Stephen Mayhew , Dan Roth

Cyberbullying is of extreme prevalence today. Online-hate comments, toxicity, cyberbullying amongst children and other vulnerable groups are only growing over online classes, and increased access to social platforms, especially post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Bhumika Bhatia , Anuj Verma , Anjum , Rahul Katarya

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

Training deep learning models with limited labelled data is an attractive scenario for many NLP tasks, including document classification. While with the recent emergence of BERT, deep learning language models can achieve reasonably good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jinghui Lu , Maeve Henchion , Ivan Bacher , Brian Mac Namee

The goal of hate speech detection is to filter negative online content aiming at certain groups of people. Due to the easy accessibility of social media platforms it is crucial to protect everyone which requires building hate speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Irina Bigoulaeva , Viktor Hangya , Iryna Gurevych , Alexander Fraser

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

Pre-trained language model word representation, such as BERT, have been extremely successful in several Natural Language Processing tasks significantly improving on the state-of-the-art. This can largely be attributed to their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wah Meng Lim , Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across a range of natural language processing tasks, but their potential to generate harmful content has raised serious safety concerns. Current toxicity detectors primarily rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhiqiang Kou , Junyang Chen , Xin-Qiang Cai , Ming-Kun Xie , Biao Liu , Changwei Wang , Lei Feng , Yuheng Jia , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Xin Geng

The ubiquity of offensive content on social media is a growing cause for concern among companies and government organizations. Recently, transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved state-of-the-art performance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Tharindu Ranasinghe , Marcos Zampieri

The digital age has expanded social media and online forums, allowing free expression for nearly 45% of the global population. Yet, it has also fueled online harassment, bullying, and harmful behaviors like hate speech and toxic comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Vuong M. Ngo , Cach N. Dang , Kien V. Nguyen , Mark Roantree

Due to the wide adoption of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc., there is an emerging need of detecting online posts that can go against the community acceptance standards. The hostility detection task has been well explored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Arkadipta De , Venkatesh E , Kaushal Kumar Maurya , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners address crucial societal problems. Large language models are now the standard to develop state-of-the-art solutions for text detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Gaurav Verma , Rohit Mujumdar , Zijie J. Wang , Munmun De Choudhury , Srijan Kumar

Online social media is rife with offensive and hateful comments, prompting the need for their automatic detection given the sheer amount of posts created every second. Creating high-quality human-labelled datasets for this task is difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 João A. Leite , Carolina Scarton , Diego F. Silva

Hate speech detection on Chinese social networks presents distinct challenges, particularly due to the widespread use of cloaking techniques designed to evade conventional text-based detection systems. Although large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Qiyao Xue , Yuchen Dou , Ryan Shi , Xiang Lorraine Li , Wei Gao

The popularity of social media has created problems such as hate speech and sexism. The identification and classification of sexism in social media are very relevant tasks, as they would allow building a healthier social environment.…

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

Social media currently provide a window on our lives, making it possible to learn how people from different places, with different backgrounds, ages, and genders use language. In this work we exploit a newly-created Arabic dataset with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Chiyu Zhang , Arun Rajendran , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Michael Przystupa , Lyle Ungar

Transformer-based pre-trained language models, such as BERT, achieve great success in various natural language understanding tasks. Prior research found that BERT captures a rich hierarchy of linguistic information at different layers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Qinglin Zhang , Chong Deng , Ma Yukun , Siqi Zheng