Abstract
Social media platforms such as Twitter offer people an opportunity to publish short posts in which they can share their opinions and perspectives. While these applications can be valuable, they can also be exploited to promote negative opinions, insults, and hatred against a person, race, or group. These opinions can be spread to millions of people at the click of a mouse. As such, there is a need to develop mechanisms by which offensive language can be automatically detected in social media channels and managed in a timely manner. To help achieve this goal, SemEval 2020 offered a shared task (OffensEval 2020) that involved the detection of offensive text in Arabic. We propose an ensemble approach that combines different levels of word embedding models and transfer learning from other sources of emotion-related tasks. The proposed system ranked 9th out of the 52 entries within the Arabic Offensive language identification subtask.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings |
Editors | Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova |
Publisher | International Committee for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 1532-1538 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781952148316 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 12 Dec 2020 → 13 Dec 2020 |
Publication series
Name | 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings |
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Conference
Conference | 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Barcelona |
Period | 12/12/20 → 13/12/20 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Computer Science Applications