ALT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Arabic and English Offensive Language Identification in Social Media
Sabit Hassan, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelalí · 2020
This paper describes the systems submitted by the Arabic Language Technology group (ALT) at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media.We focus on sub-task A (Offensive Language Identification) for two languages: Arabic and English.Our efforts for both languages achieved more than 90% macro-averaged F1-score on the official test set.For Arabic, the best results were obtained by a system combination of Support Vector Machine, Deep Neural Network, and fine-tuned Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT).For English, the best results were obtained by fine-tuning BERT.