ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Simple but Effective Lexico-Semantic Features for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter

Huangpan Zhang, Michael Wojatzki, Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch


Abstract
In this paper, we present our contribution to SemEval 2019 Task 5 Multilingual Detection of Hate, specifically in the Subtask A (English and Spanish). We compare different configurations of shallow and deep learning approaches on the English data and use the system that performs best in both sub-tasks. The resulting SVM-based system with lexicosemantic features (n-grams and embeddings) is ranked 23rd out of 69 on the English data and beats the baseline system. On the Spanish data our system is ranked 25th out of 39.
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S19-2078
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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441–446
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https://aclanthology.org/S19-2078
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2078
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Huangpan Zhang, Michael Wojatzki, Tobias Horsmann, and Torsten Zesch. 2019. ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Simple but Effective Lexico-Semantic Features for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 441–446, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Simple but Effective Lexico-Semantic Features for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter (Zhang et al., SemEval 2019)
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