Diana Constantina Hoefels


2022

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CoRoSeOf - An Annotated Corpus of Romanian Sexist and Offensive Tweets
Diana Constantina Hoefels | Çağrı Çöltekin | Irina Diana Mădroane
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

This paper introduces CoRoSeOf, a large corpus of Romanian social media manually annotated for sexist and offensive language. We describe the annotation process of the corpus, provide initial analyses, and baseline classification results for sexism detection on this data set. The resulting corpus contains 39 245 tweets, annotated by multiple annotators (with an agreement rate of Fleiss’κ= 0.45), following the sexist label set of a recent study. The automatic sexism detection yields scores similar to some of the earlier studies (macro averaged F1 score of 83.07% on binary classification task). We release the corpus with a permissive license.

2020

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TueMix at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Logistic Regression with Linguistic Feature Set
Elizabeth Bear | Diana Constantina Hoefels | Mihai Manolescu
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Commonly occurring in settings such as social media platforms, code-mixed content makes the task of identifying sentiment notably more challenging and complex due to the lack of structure and noise present in the data. SemEval-2020 Task 9, SentiMix, was organized with the purpose of detecting the sentiment of a given code-mixed tweet comprising Hindi and English. We tackled this task by comparing the performance of a system, TueMix - a logistic regression algorithm trained with three feature components: TF-IDF n-grams, monolingual sentiment lexicons, and surface features - with a neural network approach. Our results showed that TueMix outperformed the neural network approach and yielded a weighted F1-score of 0.685.