Mihai Manolescu


2021

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ROFF - A Romanian Twitter Dataset for Offensive Language
Mihai Manolescu | Çağrı Çöltekin
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)

This paper describes the annotation process of an offensive language data set for Romanian on social media. To facilitate comparable multi-lingual research on offensive language, the annotation guidelines follow some of the recent annotation efforts for other languages. The final corpus contains 5000 micro-blogging posts annotated by a large number of volunteer annotators. The inter-annotator agreement and the initial automatic discrimination results we present are in line with earlier annotation efforts.

2020

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TueMix at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Logistic Regression with Linguistic Feature Set
Elizabeth Bear | Diana Constantina Hoefels | Mihai Manolescu
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Commonly occurring in settings such as social media platforms, code-mixed content makes the task of identifying sentiment notably more challenging and complex due to the lack of structure and noise present in the data. SemEval-2020 Task 9, SentiMix, was organized with the purpose of detecting the sentiment of a given code-mixed tweet comprising Hindi and English. We tackled this task by comparing the performance of a system, TueMix - a logistic regression algorithm trained with three feature components: TF-IDF n-grams, monolingual sentiment lexicons, and surface features - with a neural network approach. Our results showed that TueMix outperformed the neural network approach and yielded a weighted F1-score of 0.685.

2019

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TuEval at SemEval-2019 Task 5: LSTM Approach to Hate Speech Detection in English and Spanish
Mihai Manolescu | Denise Löfflad | Adham Nasser Mohamed Saber | Masoumeh Moradipour Tari
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

The detection of hate speech, especially in online platforms and forums, is quickly becoming a hot topic as anti-hate speech legislation begins to be applied to public discourse online. The HatEval shared task was created with this in mind; participants were expected to develop a model capable of determining whether or not input (in this case, Twitter datasets in English and Spanish) could be considered hate speech (designated as Task A), if they were aggressive, and whether the tweet was targeting an individual, or speaking generally (Task B). We approached this task by creating an LSTM model with an embedding layer. We found that our model performed considerably better on English language input when compared to Spanish language input. In English, we achieved an F1-Score of 0.466 for Task A and 0.462 for Task B; In Spanish, we achieved scores of 0.617 and 0.612 on Task A and Task B, respectively.