Nikolov-Radivchev at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Offensive Tweet Classification with BERT and Ensembles

Alex Nikolov, Victor Radivchev


Abstract
This paper examines different approaches and models towards offensive tweet classification which were used as a part of the OffensEval 2019 competition. It reviews Tweet preprocessing, techniques for overcoming unbalanced class distribution in the provided test data, and comparison of multiple attempted machine learning models.
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S19-2123
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
691–695
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2123
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2123
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Alex Nikolov and Victor Radivchev. 2019. Nikolov-Radivchev at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Offensive Tweet Classification with BERT and Ensembles. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 691–695, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Nikolov-Radivchev at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Offensive Tweet Classification with BERT and Ensembles (Nikolov & Radivchev, SemEval 2019)
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