Offensive language detection in Hebrew: can other languages help?

Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, Chaya Liebeskind, Omar Hmdia, Rizek Abu Madeghem

Abstract
Unfortunately, offensive language in social media is a common phenomenon nowadays. It harms many people and vulnerable groups. Therefore, automated detection of offensive language is in high demand and it is a serious challenge in multilingual domains. Various machine learning approaches combined with natural language techniques have been applied for this task lately. This paper contributes to this area from several aspects: (1) it introduces a new dataset of annotated Facebook comments in Hebrew; (2) it describes a case study with multiple supervised models and text representations for a task of offensive language detection in three languages, including two Semitic (Hebrew and Arabic) languages; (3) it reports evaluation results of cross-lingual and multilingual learning for detection of offensive content in Semitic languages; and (4) it discusses the limitations of these settings.
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2022.lrec-1.396
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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3715–3723
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.396
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Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, Chaya Liebeskind, Omar Hmdia, and Rizek Abu Madeghem. 2022. Offensive language detection in Hebrew: can other languages help?. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3715–3723, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Offensive language detection in Hebrew: can other languages help? (Litvak et al., LREC 2022)
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