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Detecting Hateful and Offensive Speech in Arabic Social Media Using Transfer Learning

Author name : Karim Gasmi
Publication Date : 2022-12-14
Journal Name : Applied Sciences

Abstract

The democratization of access to internet and social media has given an opportunity for every individual to openly express his or her ideas and feelings. Unfortunately, this has also created room for extremist, racist, misogynist, and offensive opinions expressed either as articles, posts, or comments. While controlling offensive speech in English-, Spanish-, and French- speaking social media communities and websites has reached a mature level, it is much less the case for their counterparts in Arabic-speaking countries. This paper presents a transfer learning solution to detect hateful and offensive speech on Arabic websites and social media platforms. This paper will compare the performance of different BERT-based models trained to classify comments as either abusive or neutral. The training dataset contains comments in standard Arabic as well as four dialects. We will also use their English translations for comparative purposes. The models were evaluated based on five metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and Confusion Matrix.

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Publication Link

https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412823

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