Hater-O-Genius Aggression Classification using Capsule Networks
Parth Patwa, Srinivas Pykl, Amitava Das, Prerana Mukherjee, Viswanath Pulabaigari
Abstract
Contending hate speech in social media is one of the most challenging social problems of our time. There are various types of anti-social behavior in social media. Foremost of them is aggressive behavior, which is causing many social issues such as affecting the social lives and mental health of social media users. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ensemble-based architecture to automatically identify and classify aggressive tweets. Tweets are classified into three categories - Covertly Aggressive, Overtly Aggressive, and Non-Aggressive. The proposed architecture is an ensemble of smaller subnetworks that are able to characterize the feature embeddings effectively. We demonstrate qualitatively that each of the smaller subnetworks is able to learn unique features. Our best model is an ensemble of Capsule Networks and results in a 65.2% F1 score on the Facebook test set, which results in a performance gain of 0.95% over the TRAC-2018 winners. The code and the model weights are publicly available at https://github.com/parthpatwa/Hater-O-Genius-Aggression-Classification-using-Capsule-Networks.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.icon-main.19
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
- Editors:
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal
- Venue:
- ICON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 149–154
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.icon-main.19
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Parth Patwa, Srinivas Pykl, Amitava Das, Prerana Mukherjee, and Viswanath Pulabaigari. 2020. Hater-O-Genius Aggression Classification using Capsule Networks. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 149–154, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
- Cite (Informal):
- Hater-O-Genius Aggression Classification using Capsule Networks (Patwa et al., ICON 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2020.icon-main.19.pdf
- Code
- parthpatwa/Hater-O-Genius-Aggression-Classification-using-Capsule-Networks