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Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Tweets

1 Jun 2017arXiv:1706.00188archive 2025-07-28

Pinkesh Badjatiya, Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma

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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