UoB at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Extending Pre-Trained Language Models to Include Task and Domain-Specific Information for Toxic Span Prediction

Erik Yan, Harish Tayyar Madabushi


Abstract
Toxicity is pervasive in social media and poses a major threat to the health of online communities. The recent introduction of pre-trained language models, which have achieved state-of-the-art results in many NLP tasks, has transformed the way in which we approach natural language processing. However, the inherent nature of pre-training means that they are unlikely to capture task-specific statistical information or learn domain-specific knowledge. Additionally, most implementations of these models typically do not employ conditional random fields, a method for simultaneous token classification. We show that these modifications can improve model performance on the Toxic Spans Detection task at SemEval-2021 to achieve a score within 4 percentage points of the top performing team.
Anthology ID:
2021.semeval-1.28
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
243–248
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.28
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.28
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Cite (ACL):
Erik Yan and Harish Tayyar Madabushi. 2021. UoB at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Extending Pre-Trained Language Models to Include Task and Domain-Specific Information for Toxic Span Prediction. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 243–248, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UoB at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Extending Pre-Trained Language Models to Include Task and Domain-Specific Information for Toxic Span Prediction (Yan & Tayyar Madabushi, SemEval 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.28.pdf
Code
 erikdyan/toxic_span_detection