Hate Speech detection in English

bertweet-hate-speech

Repository: https://github.com/pysentimiento/pysentimiento/

Model trained with SemEval 2019 Task 5: HatEval (SubTask B) corpus for Hate Speech detection in English. Base model is BERTweet, a RoBERTa model trained in English tweets.

It is a multi-classifier model, with the following classes:

HS: is it hate speech?
TR: is it targeted to a specific individual?
AG: is it aggressive?

License

pysentimiento is an open-source library for non-commercial use and scientific research purposes only. Please be aware that models are trained with third-party datasets and are subject to their respective licenses.

Citation

If you use this model in your work, please cite the following papers:

@misc{perez2021pysentimiento,
      title={pysentimiento: A Python Toolkit for Sentiment Analysis and SocialNLP tasks},
      author={Juan Manuel Pérez and Juan Carlos Giudici and Franco Luque},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2106.09462},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

@inproceedings{nguyen2020bertweet,
  title={BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets},
  author={Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Vu, Thanh and Nguyen, Anh Tuan},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
  pages={9--14},
  year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{basile2019semeval,
  title={Semeval-2019 task 5: Multilingual detection of hate speech against immigrants and women in twitter},
  author={Basile, Valerio and Bosco, Cristina and Fersini, Elisabetta and Nozza, Debora and Patti, Viviana and Pardo, Francisco Manuel Rangel and Rosso, Paolo and Sanguinetti, Manuela},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th international workshop on semantic evaluation},
  pages={54--63},
  year={2019}
}

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