CAMsterdam at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Neural and graph-based feature extraction for the identification of offensive tweets
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Abstract
We describe the CAMsterdam team entry to the SemEval-2019 Shared Task 6 on offensive language identification in Twitter data. Our proposed model learns to extract textual features using a multi-layer recurrent network, and then performs text classification using gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDT). A self-attention architecture enables the model to focus on the most relevant areas in the text. In order to enrich input representations, we use node2vec to learn globally optimised embeddings for hashtags, which are then given as additional features to the GBDT classifier. Our best model obtains 78.79% macro F1-score on detecting offensive language (subtask A), 66.32% on categorising offence types (targeted/untargeted; subtask B), and 55.36% on identifying the target of offence (subtask C).
Date Issued
2019-06-06
Date Acceptance
2019-06-01
Citation
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2019, Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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©2019 Association for Computational Linguistics. Materials published in or after 2016 are licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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Published
Start Date
2019-06-06
Finish Date
2019-06-07
Coverage Spatial
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Date Publish Online
2019-06-06