"To Target or Not to Target": Identification and Analysis of Abusive Text Using Ensemble of Classifiers

With rising concern around abusive and hateful behavior on social media platforms, we present an ensemble learning method to identify and analyze the linguistic properties of such content. Our stacked ensemble comprises of three machine learning models that capture different aspects of language and...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-06
Main Authors: Verma, Gaurav, Chhaya, Niyati, Vishwa Vinay
Format: Article
Language:English
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Digital media
Machine learning
Target recognition
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Summary:With rising concern around abusive and hateful behavior on social media platforms, we present an ensemble learning method to identify and analyze the linguistic properties of such content. Our stacked ensemble comprises of three machine learning models that capture different aspects of language and provide diverse and coherent insights about inappropriate language. The proposed approach provides comparable results to the existing state-of-the-art on the Twitter Abusive Behavior dataset (Founta et al. 2018) without using any user or network-related information; solely relying on textual properties. We believe that the presented insights and discussion of shortcomings of current approaches will highlight potential directions for future research.
ISSN:2331-8422