SalamNET at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Offensive Language Detection

Fatemah Husain, Jooyeon Lee, Sam Henry, Ozlem Uzuner


Abstract
This paper describes SalamNET, an Arabic offensive language detection system that has been submitted to SemEval 2020 shared task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. Our approach focuses on applying multiple deep learning models and conducting in depth error analysis of results to provide system implications for future development considerations. To pursue our goal, a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) models with different design architectures have been developed and evaluated. The SalamNET, a Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) based model, reports a macro-F1 score of 0.83%
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2020.semeval-1.283
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona (online)
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Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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2133–2139
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.283
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.283
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Fatemah Husain, Jooyeon Lee, Sam Henry, and Ozlem Uzuner. 2020. SalamNET at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Offensive Language Detection. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 2133–2139, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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SalamNET at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Offensive Language Detection (Husain et al., SemEval 2020)
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