@inproceedings{baruah-etal-2020-aggression,
    title = "Aggression Identification in {E}nglish, {H}indi and {B}angla Text using {BERT}, {R}o{BERT}a and {SVM}",
    author = "Baruah, Arup  and
      Das, Kaushik  and
      Barbhuiya, Ferdous  and
      Dey, Kuntal",
    editor = "Kumar, Ritesh  and
      Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Lahiri, Bornini  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Murdock, Vanessa  and
      Kadar, Daniel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.trac-1.12/",
    pages = "76--82",
    language = "eng",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-56-6",
    abstract = "This paper presents the results of the classifiers we developed for the shared tasks in aggression identification and misogynistic aggression identification. These two shared tasks were held as part of the second workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC). Both the subtasks were held for English, Hindi and Bangla language. In our study, we used English BERT (En-BERT), RoBERTa, DistilRoBERTa, and SVM based classifiers for English language. For Hindi and Bangla language, multilingual BERT (M-BERT), XLM-RoBERTa and SVM classifiers were used. Our best performing models are EN-BERT for English Subtask A (Weighted F1 score of 0.73, Rank 5/16), SVM for English Subtask B (Weighted F1 score of 0.87, Rank 2/15), SVM for Hindi Subtask A (Weighted F1 score of 0.79, Rank 2/10), XLMRoBERTa for Hindi Subtask B (Weighted F1 score of 0.87, Rank 2/10), SVM for Bangla Subtask A (Weighted F1 score of 0.81, Rank 2/10), and SVM for Bangla Subtask B (Weighted F1 score of 0.93, Rank 4/8). It is seen that the superior performance of the SVM classifier was achieved mainly because of its better prediction of the majority class. BERT based classifiers were found to predict the minority classes better."
}