The binary trio at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multitarget Hate Speech Detection in Tweets

Patricia Chiril, Farah Benamara Zitoune, Véronique Moriceau, Abhishek Kumar · 2019

The massive growth of user-generated web content through blogs, online forums and most notably, social media networks, led to a large spreading of hatred or abusive messages which have to be moderated.This paper proposes a supervised approach to hate speech detection towards immigrants and women in English tweets.Several models have been developed ranging from feature-engineering approaches to neural ones.We also carried out a detailed error analysis to show main causes of misclassification.

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