#YouToo? Detection of Personal Recollections of Sexual Harassment on Social Media
Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Ramit Sawhney, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Debanjan Mahata
Abstract
The availability of large-scale online social data, coupled with computational methods can help us answer fundamental questions relat- ing to our social lives, particularly our health and well-being. The #MeToo trend has led to people talking about personal experiences of harassment more openly. This work at- tempts to aggregate such experiences of sex- ual abuse to facilitate a better understanding of social media constructs and to bring about social change. It has been found that disclo- sure of abuse has positive psychological im- pacts. Hence, we contend that such informa- tion can leveraged to create better campaigns for social change by analyzing how users react to these stories and to obtain a better insight into the consequences of sexual abuse. We use a three part Twitter-Specific Social Media Lan- guage Model to segregate personal recollec- tions of sexual harassment from Twitter posts. An extensive comparison with state-of-the-art generic and specific models along with a de- tailed error analysis explores the merit of our proposed model.- Anthology ID:
- P19-1241
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2527–2537
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/P19-1241/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1241
- Cite (ACL):
- Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Ramit Sawhney, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Debanjan Mahata. 2019. #YouToo? Detection of Personal Recollections of Sexual Harassment on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2527–2537, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- #YouToo? Detection of Personal Recollections of Sexual Harassment on Social Media (Ghosh Chowdhury et al., ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/P19-1241.pdf
- Code
- arijit1410/ACL2019-YouToo