One-step and Two-step Classification for Abusive Language Detection on Twitter

Ji Ho Park, Pascale Fung


Abstract
Automatic abusive language detection is a difficult but important task for online social media. Our research explores a two-step approach of performing classification on abusive language and then classifying into specific types and compares it with one-step approach of doing one multi-class classification for detecting sexist and racist languages. With a public English Twitter corpus of 20 thousand tweets in the type of sexism and racism, our approach shows a promising performance of 0.827 F-measure by using HybridCNN in one-step and 0.824 F-measure by using logistic regression in two-steps.
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W17-3006
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online
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August
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2017
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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ALW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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41–45
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3006
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10.18653/v1/W17-3006
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Ji Ho Park and Pascale Fung. 2017. One-step and Two-step Classification for Abusive Language Detection on Twitter. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pages 41–45, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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