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Fine-Grained Classification of Offensive Language

    Julian Risch, Eva Krebs, Alexander Löser, Alexander Riese, Ralf Krestel

konvens 2018 - GermEval Proceedings, pp. 38-44, 2018/10/02

14th Conference on Natural Language Processing - KONVENS 2018


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Abstract

Social media platforms receive massive amounts of user-generated content that may include offensive text messages. In the context of the GermEval task 2018, we propose an approach for fine-grained classification of offensive language. Our approach comprises a Naive Bayes classifier, a neural network, and a rule-based approach that categorize tweets. In addition, we combine the approaches in an ensemble to overcome weaknesses of the single models. We cross-validate our approaches with regard to macro-average F1-score on the provided training dataset.