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Detecting Hate Speech Spreaders on Twitter using LSTM and BERT in English and Spanish

  • Moshe Uzan
  • , Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our submissions for PAN at CLEF 2021 contest. We tackled the subtask “Profiling Hate Speech Spreaders on Twitter”. We developed different models for English and Spanish languages, using classic machine learning methods like Support Vector Classifier, Multi-Layer Perceptron, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Ada-Boost Classifier and K-Neighbors Classifier to more recent deep learning methods like BERT and Bidirectional LSTM.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2178-2185
Number of pages8
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2936
StatePublished - 2021
Event22nd Working Notes of CLEF - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF-WN 2021 - Virtual, Online, Romania
Duration: 21 Sep 202124 Sep 2021

Bibliographical note

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Funding

We thank the Bar-Ilan Data Science Institute for kindly providing server for training our models. Without their support, this research would not have been possible. We are also grateful to the organizers and reviewers who gave us the opportunity to do this research.

Funders
Bar-Ilan data science institute

    Keywords

    • Ada-boost classifier
    • Author profiling
    • BERT
    • English
    • Hate speech
    • LSTM
    • Logistic regression
    • MLP
    • Random forest
    • SVM
    • Spanish
    • Twitter

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