Johannes Skjeggestad Meyer


2019

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A Platform Agnostic Dual-Strand Hate Speech Detector
Johannes Skjeggestad Meyer | Björn Gambäck
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online

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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