Scmhl5 at TRAC-2 Shared Task on Aggression Identification: Bert Based Ensemble Learning Approach

Han Liu, Pete Burnap, Wafa Alorainy, Matthew Williams

Abstract
This paper presents a system developed during our participation (team name: scmhl5) in the TRAC-2 Shared Task on aggression identification. In particular, we participated in English Sub-task A on three-class classification (‘Overtly Aggressive’, ‘Covertly Aggressive’ and ‘Non-aggressive’) and English Sub-task B on binary classification for Misogynistic Aggression (‘gendered’ or ‘non-gendered’). For both sub-tasks, our method involves using the pre-trained Bert model for extracting the text of each instance into a 768-dimensional vector of embeddings, and then training an ensemble of classifiers on the embedding features. Our method obtained accuracy of 0.703 and weighted F-measure of 0.664 for Sub-task A, whereas for Sub-task B the accuracy was 0.869 and weighted F-measure was 0.851. In terms of the rankings, the weighted F-measure obtained using our method for Sub-task A is ranked in the 10th out of 16 teams, whereas for Sub-task B the weighted F-measure is ranked in the 8th out of 15 teams.
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2020.trac-1.10
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Bornini Lahiri, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Vanessa Murdock, Daniel Kadar
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TRAC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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62–68
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English
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Han Liu, Pete Burnap, Wafa Alorainy, and Matthew Williams. 2020. Scmhl5 at TRAC-2 Shared Task on Aggression Identification: Bert Based Ensemble Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying, pages 62–68, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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