YNU_oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Bidirectional GRU with Capsule for Identifying Multilingual Offensive Language

Xiaozhi Ou, Hongling Li


Abstract
This article describes the system submitted to SemEval-2020 Task 12 OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Recognition in Social Media. The task is to classify offensive language in social media. The shared task contains five languages (English, Greek, Arabic, Danish, and Turkish) and three subtasks. We only participated in subtask A of English to identify offensive language. To solve this task, we proposed a system based on a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) with a Capsule model. Finally, we used the K-fold approach for ensemble. Our model achieved a Macro-average F1 score of 0.90969 (ranked 27/85) in subtask A.
Anthology ID:
2020.semeval-1.300
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Barcelona (online)
Editors:
Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2251–2257
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.300
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.300
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Cite (ACL):
Xiaozhi Ou and Hongling Li. 2020. YNU_oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Bidirectional GRU with Capsule for Identifying Multilingual Offensive Language. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 2251–2257, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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YNU_oxz at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Bidirectional GRU with Capsule for Identifying Multilingual Offensive Language (Ou & Li, SemEval 2020)
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Data
HatEvalHate Speech and Offensive LanguageOLID