LaSTUS/TALN at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identification and Categorization of Offensive Language in Social Media with Attention-based Bi-LSTM model

Lütfiye Seda Mut Altın, Àlex Bravo Serrano, Horacio Saggion · 2019

This paper describes a bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory network for identifying offensive language in Twitter.Our system has been developed in the context of the Se-mEval 2019 Task 6 which comprises three different sub-tasks, namely A: Offensive Language Detection, B: Categorization of Offensive Language, C: Offensive Language Target Identification.We used a pre-trained Word Embeddings in tweet data, including information about emojis and hashtags.Our approach achieves good performance in the three subtasks.

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