Text analysis for hate speech detection in Italian messages on Twitter and Facebook
Giulio Bianchini, Lorenzo Ferri, Tommaso Giorni · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2018
In this paper, we present a system able to classify hate speeches in Italian messages from Facebook and Twitter platforms. The system combines several typical techniques from Natural Language Processing with a classifier based on Artificial Neural Networks. It has been trained and tested on a corpus of 3000 messages from the Twitter platform and 3000 messages from the Facebook platform. The system has been submitted to the HaSpeeDe task within the EVALITA 2018 competition and the experimental results obtained in the evaluation phase of the competition are presented and discussed.