Afsheen Hatami
2020
Attending the Emotions to Detect Online Abusive Language
Niloofar Safi Samghabadi
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Afsheen Hatami
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Mahsa Shafaei
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Sudipta Kar
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Thamar Solorio
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms
In recent years, abusive behavior has become a serious issue in online social networks. In this paper, we present a new corpus for the task of abusive language detection that is collected from a semi-anonymous online platform, and unlike the majority of other available resources, is not created based on a specific list of bad words. We also develop computational models to incorporate emotions into textual cues to improve aggression identification. We evaluate our proposed methods on a set of corpora related to the task and show promising results with respect to abusive language detection.