OffendES: A New Corpus in Spanish for Offensive Language Research
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Arturo Montejo‐Ráez, Luís Alfonso Ureña López, María Teresa Martín Valdivia · 2021
Offensive language detection and analysis has become a major area of research in Natural Language Processing.The freedom of participation in social media has exposed online users to posts designed to denigrate, insult or hurt them according to gender, race, religion, ideology, or other personal characteristics.Focusing on young influencers from the wellknown social platforms of Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, we have collected a corpus composed of 47,128 Spanish comments manually labeled on offensive pre-defined categories.A subset of the corpus attaches a degree of confidence to each label, so both multi-class classification and multi-output regression studies are possible.In this paper, we introduce the corpus, discuss its building process, novelties, and some preliminary experiments with it to serve as a baseline for the research community.