Pardeep at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media using Deep Learning

Pardeep Singh, Satish Chand


Abstract
The rise of social media has made information exchange faster and easier among the people. However, in recent times, the use of offensive language has seen an upsurge in social media. The main challenge for a service provider is to correctly identify such offensive posts and take necessary action to monitor and control their spread. In this work, we try to address this problem by using sophisticated deep learning techniques like LSTM, Bidirectional LSTM and Bidirectional GRU. Our proposed approach solves 3 different Sub-tasks provided in the SemEval-2019 task 6 which incorporates identification of offensive tweets as well as their categorization. We obtain significantly better results in the leader-board for Sub-task B and decent results for Sub-task A and Subtask C validating the fact that the proposed models can be used for automating the offensive post-detection task in social media.
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S19-2128
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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727–734
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https://aclanthology.org/S19-2128
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2128
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Pardeep Singh and Satish Chand. 2019. Pardeep at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media using Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 727–734, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Pardeep at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media using Deep Learning (Singh & Chand, SemEval 2019)
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