RuG @ EVALITA 2018: Hate Speech Detection In Italian Social Media
Xiaoyu Bai, Flavio Merenda, Claudia Zaghi, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2018
We describe the systems the RuG Team developed in the context of the Hate Speech Detection Task in Italian Social Media at EVALITA 2018. We submitted a total of eight runs, participating in all four subtasks. The best macro-F1 score in all subtasks was obtained by a Linear SVM, using hate-rich embeddings. Our best system obtains competitive results, by ranking 6th (out of 14) in HaSpeeDe-FB, 3rd (out of 15) in HaSpeeDe-TW, 8th (out of 13) in Cross-HaSpeeDe_FB, and 6th (out of 13) in Cross-HaSpeeDe_TW.