Team Rouges at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Cross-lingual Inductive Transfer to Detect Offensive Language

Tanvi Dadu, Kartikey Pant


Abstract
With the growing use of social media and its availability, many instances of the use of offensive language have been observed across multiple languages and domains. This phenomenon has given rise to the growing need to detect the offensive language used in social media cross-lingually. In OffensEval 2020, the organizers have released the multilingual Offensive Language Identification Dataset (mOLID), which contains tweets in five different languages, to detect offensive language. In this work, we introduce a cross-lingual inductive approach to identify the offensive language in tweets using the contextual word embedding XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R). We show that our model performs competitively on all five languages, obtaining the fourth position in the English task with an F1-score of 0.919 and eighth position in the Turkish task with an F1-score of 0.781. Further experimentation proves that our model works competitively in a zero-shot learning environment, and is extensible to other languages.
Anthology ID:
2020.semeval-1.290
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
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2183–2189
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.290
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.290
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Tanvi Dadu and Kartikey Pant. 2020. Team Rouges at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Cross-lingual Inductive Transfer to Detect Offensive Language. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 2183–2189, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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Team Rouges at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Cross-lingual Inductive Transfer to Detect Offensive Language (Dadu & Pant, SemEval 2020)
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