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Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Tweets

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Pinkesh Badjatiya,

Shashank Gupta,

Manish Gupta,

Vasudeva VarmaAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Pages 759 - 760

https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3054223

Published: 03 April 2017 Publication History

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Hate speech detection on Twitter is critical for applications like controversial event extraction, building AI chatterbots, content recommendation, and sentiment analysis. We define this task as being able to classify a tweet as racist, sexist or neither. The complexity of the natural language constructs makes this task very challenging. We perform extensive experiments with multiple deep learning architectures to learn semantic word embeddings to handle this complexity. Our experiments on a benchmark dataset of 16K annotated tweets show that such deep learning methods outperform state-of-the-art char/word n-gram methods by ~18 F1 points.

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Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Tweets
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
      1. Social networking sites
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Social networks
    2. Web mining

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April 2017

1738 pages

ISBN:9781450349147

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