A Platform Agnostic Dual-Strand Hate Speech Detector

Johannes Skjeggestad Meyer, Björn Gambäck


Abstract
Hate speech detectors must be applicable across a multitude of services and platforms, and there is hence a need for detection approaches that do not depend on any information specific to a given platform. For instance, the information stored about the text’s author may differ between services, and so using such data would reduce a system’s general applicability. The paper thus focuses on using exclusively text-based input in the detection, in an optimised architecture combining Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short-Term Memory-networks. The hate speech detector merges two strands with character n-grams and word embeddings to produce the final classification, and is shown to outperform comparable previous approaches.
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W19-3516
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Sarah T. Roberts, Joel Tetreault, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Zeerak Waseem
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ALW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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146–156
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3516
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3516
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Johannes Skjeggestad Meyer and Björn Gambäck. 2019. A Platform Agnostic Dual-Strand Hate Speech Detector. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pages 146–156, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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