Know-Center at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection on Twitter using CNNs

Kevin Winter, Roman Kern


Abstract
This paper presents the Know-Center system submitted for task 5 of the SemEval-2019 workshop. Given a Twitter message in either English or Spanish, the task is to first detect whether it contains hateful speech and second, to determine the target and level of aggression used. For this purpose our system utilizes word embeddings and a neural network architecture, consisting of both dilated and traditional convolution layers. We achieved average F1-scores of 0.57 and 0.74 for English and Spanish respectively.
Anthology ID:
S19-2076
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
431–435
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2076
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2076
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Cite (ACL):
Kevin Winter and Roman Kern. 2019. Know-Center at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection on Twitter using CNNs. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 431–435, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Know-Center at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection on Twitter using CNNs (Winter & Kern, SemEval 2019)
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