Detecting Sexism in Tweets: A Sentiment Analysis and Graph Neural Network Approach

Diana P. Madera-Espíndola, Zoe Caballero-Domínguez, Valeria J. Ramírez-Macías, Sabur Butt, Hector Ceballos


Abstract
In the digital age, social media platforms like Twitter serve as an extensive repository of public discourse, including instances of sexism. It is important to identify such behavior since radicalized ideologies can lead to real-world violent acts. This project aims to develop a deep learning-based tool that leverages a combination of BERT (both English and multilingual versions) and GraphSAGE, a Graph Neural Network (GNN) model, alongside sentiment analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The tool is designed to analyze tweets for sexism detection and classify them into five categories.
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2025.naacl-srw.5
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
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April
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2025
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Albuquerque, USA
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Abteen Ebrahimi, Samar Haider, Emmy Liu, Sammar Haider, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Shira Wein
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NAACL | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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48–54
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10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-srw.5
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Diana P. Madera-Espíndola, Zoe Caballero-Domínguez, Valeria J. Ramírez-Macías, Sabur Butt, and Hector Ceballos. 2025. Detecting Sexism in Tweets: A Sentiment Analysis and Graph Neural Network Approach. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 48–54, Albuquerque, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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