Detecting Aggression and Toxicity using a Multi Dimension Capsule Network

Saurabh Srivastava, Prerna Khurana


Abstract
In the era of social media, hate speech, trolling and verbal abuse have become a common issue. We present an approach to automatically classify such statements, using a new deep learning architecture. Our model comprises of a Multi Dimension Capsule Network that generates the representation of sentences which we use for classification. We further provide an analysis of our model’s interpretation of such statements. We compare the results of our model with state-of-art classification algorithms and demonstrate our model’s ability. It also has the capability to handle comments that are written in both Hindi and English, which are provided in the TRAC dataset. We also compare results on Kaggle’s Toxic comment classification dataset.
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W19-3517
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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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157–162
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3517
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10.18653/v1/W19-3517
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Saurabh Srivastava and Prerna Khurana. 2019. Detecting Aggression and Toxicity using a Multi Dimension Capsule Network. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pages 157–162, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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