Toxic Spans Detection

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• Cross-Domain Toxic Spans Detection
  16 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  Given the dynamic nature of toxic language use, automated methods for detecting toxic spans are likely to encounter distributional shift.
• ViHOS: Hate Speech Spans Detection for Vietnamese
  24 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  The rise in hateful and offensive language directed at other users is one of the adverse side effects of the increased use of social networking platforms.
• From the Detection of Toxic Spans in Online Discussions to the Analysis of Toxic-to-Civil Transfer
  1 May 2022 1 repository listed
  We study the task of toxic spans detection, which concerns the detection of the spans that make a text toxic, when detecting such spans is possible.
• UoB at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Extending Pre-Trained Language Models to Include Task and Domain-Specific Information for Toxic Span Prediction
  7 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  Toxicity is pervasive in social media and poses a major threat to the health of online communities.
• YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Using a Transformer-based Model with Auxiliary Information for Toxic Span Detection
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, a transformer-based model with auxiliary information is proposed for SemEval-2021 Task 5.
• Sefamerve ARGE at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection Using Segmentation Based 1-D Convolutional Neural Network Model
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper describes our contribution to SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection.
• Entity at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Weakly Supervised Token Labelling for Toxic Spans Detection
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  The baseline approach for this problem using the transformer model is to add a token classification head to the language model and fine-tune the layers with the token labeled dataset.
• YoungSheldon at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models for Toxic Spans Detection using Token classification Objective
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we describe our system used for SemEval 2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection.
• Cisco at SemEval-2021 Task 5: What's Toxic?: Leveraging Transformers for Multiple Toxic Span Extraction from Online Comments
  28 May 2021 1 repository listed
  We also explore a dependency parsing approach where we extract spans from the input sentence under the supervision of target span boundaries and rank our spans using a biaffine model.
• UIT-ISE-NLP at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection with BiLSTM-CRF and ToxicBERT Comment Classification
  20 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  We present our works on SemEval-2021 Task 5 about Toxic Spans Detection.
• MIPT-NSU-UTMN at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Ensembling Learning with Pre-trained Language Models for Toxic Spans Detection
  10 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper describes our system for SemEval-2021 Task 5 on Toxic Spans Detection.
• UTNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Comparative Analysis of Toxic Span Detection using Attention-based, Named Entity Recognition, and Ensemble Models
  10 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  Detecting which parts of a sentence contribute to that sentence's toxicity -- rather than providing a sentence-level verdict of hatefulness -- would increase the interpretability of models and allow human moderators to…
• WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans
  9 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  In recent years, the widespread use of social media has led to an increase in the generation of toxic and offensive content on online platforms.
• Lone Pine at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Fine-Grained Detection of Hate Speech Using BERToxic
  8 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper describes our approach to the Toxic Spans Detection problem (SemEval-2021 Task 5).
• IITK@Detox at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Semi-Supervised Learning and Dice Loss for Toxic Spans Detection
  4 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  In this work, we present our approach and findings for SemEval-2021 Task 5 - Toxic Spans Detection.
• HLE-UPC at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Multi-Depth DistilBERT for Toxic Spans Detection
  1 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper presents our submission to SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection.
• UniParma at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection Using CharacterBERT and Bag-of-Words Model
  17 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  We tackle this problem utilizing a combination of a state-of-the-art pre-trained language model (CharacterBERT) and a traditional bag-of-words technique.
• NLRG at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection Leveraging BERT-based Token Classification and Span Prediction Techniques
  24 Feb 2021 1 repository listed
  In our paper, we explore simple versions of both of these approaches and their performance on the task.