{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/detecting-hate-speech-in-social-media","title":"Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media","arxiv_id":"1712.06427","date":"2017-12-18","proceeding":"RANLP 2017 9","authors":["Shervin Malmasi","Marcos Zampieri"],"abstract":"In this paper we examine methods to detect hate speech in social media, while\ndistinguishing this from general profanity. We aim to establish lexical\nbaselines for this task by applying supervised classification methods using a\nrecently released dataset annotated for this purpose. As features, our system\nuses character n-grams, word n-grams and word skip-grams. We obtain results of\n78% accuracy in identifying posts across three classes. Results demonstrate\nthat the main challenge lies in discriminating profanity and hate speech from\neach other. A number of directions for future work are discussed.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06427v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06427v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"detecting-hate-speech-in-social-media","repo_url":"https://github.com/ManishShettyM/NLP-Offensive-Text-Detection","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1712.06427","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1712.06427","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}