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Comparative Studies of Detecting Abusive Language on Twitter

30 Aug 2018WS 2018 10arXiv:1808.10245archive 2025-07-28

Younghun Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Kyomin Jung

The context-dependent nature of online aggression makes annotating large collections of data extremely difficult. Previously studied datasets in abusive language detection have been insufficient in size to efficiently train deep learning models. Recently, Hate and Abusive Speech on Twitter, a dataset much greater in size and reliability, has been released. However, this dataset has not been comprehensively studied to its potential. In this paper, we conduct the first comparative study of various learning models on Hate and Abusive Speech on Twitter, and discuss the possibility of using additional features and context data for improvements. Experimental results show that bidirectional GRU networks trained on word-level features, with Latent Topic Clustering modules, is the most accurate model scoring 0.805 F1.

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Abuse DetectionAbusive LanguageClusteringHate Speech DetectionSentiment AnalysisTwitter Sentiment Analysis

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