Joint Modelling of Emotion and Abusive Language Detection
Santhosh Rajamanickam, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina Shutova
Abstract
The rise of online communication platforms has been accompanied by some undesirable effects, such as the proliferation of aggressive and abusive behaviour online. Aiming to tackle this problem, the natural language processing (NLP) community has experimented with a range of techniques for abuse detection. While achieving substantial success, these methods have so far only focused on modelling the linguistic properties of the comments and the online communities of users, disregarding the emotional state of the users and how this might affect their language. The latter is, however, inextricably linked to abusive behaviour. In this paper, we present the first joint model of emotion and abusive language detection, experimenting in a multi-task learning framework that allows one task to inform the other. Our results demonstrate that incorporating affective features leads to significant improvements in abuse detection performance across datasets.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.394
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4270–4279
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.394
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.394
- Cite (ACL):
- Santhosh Rajamanickam, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, and Ekaterina Shutova. 2020. Joint Modelling of Emotion and Abusive Language Detection. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4270–4279, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Joint Modelling of Emotion and Abusive Language Detection (Rajamanickam et al., ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2020.acl-main.394.pdf