BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media

Abdullah I. Alharbi; Mark Lee

BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media

Abdullah I. Alharbi, Mark Lee

Computer Science

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Abstract

Social media platforms such as Twitter offer people an opportunity to publish short posts in which they can share their opinions and perspectives. While these applications can be valuable, they can also be exploited to promote negative opinions, insults, and hatred against a person, race, or group. These opinions can be spread to millions of people at the click of a mouse. As such, there is a need to develop mechanisms by which offensive language can be automatically detected in social media channels and managed in a timely manner. To help achieve this goal, SemEval 2020 offered a shared task (OffensEval 2020) that involved the detection of offensive text in Arabic. We propose an ensemble approach that combines different levels of word embedding models and transfer learning from other sources of emotion-related tasks. The proposed system ranked 9th out of the 52 entries within the Arabic Offensive language identification subtask.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
Publisher	International Committee for Computational Linguistics
Pages	1532-1538
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781952148316
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 12 Dec 2020 → 13 Dec 2020

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Name	14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings

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Conference	14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	12/12/20 → 13/12/20

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© 2020 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings. All rights reserved.

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Theoretical Computer Science
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications

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Alharbi, A. I., & Lee, M. (2020). BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. In A. Herbelot, X. Zhu, A. Palmer, N. Schneider, J. May, & E. Shutova (Eds.), 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings (pp. 1532-1538). (14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.

Alharbi, Abdullah I. ; Lee, Mark. / BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12 : An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings. editor / Aurelie Herbelot ; Xiaodan Zhu ; Alexis Palmer ; Nathan Schneider ; Jonathan May ; Ekaterina Shutova. International Committee for Computational Linguistics, 2020. pp. 1532-1538 (14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings).

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Alharbi, AI & Lee, M 2020, BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. in A Herbelot, X Zhu, A Palmer, N Schneider, J May & E Shutova (eds), 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings. 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings, International Committee for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1532-1538, 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020, Barcelona, Spain, 12/12/20.

BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. / Alharbi, Abdullah I.; Lee, Mark.
14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Aurelie Herbelot; Xiaodan Zhu; Alexis Palmer; Nathan Schneider; Jonathan May; Ekaterina Shutova. International Committee for Computational Linguistics, 2020. p. 1532-1538 (14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings).

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Alharbi AI, Lee M. BhamNLP at SemEval-2020 Task 12: An Ensemble of Different Word Embeddings and Emotion Transfer Learning for Arabic Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. In Herbelot A, Zhu X, Palmer A, Schneider N, May J, Shutova E, editors, 14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings. International Committee for Computational Linguistics. 2020. p. 1532-1538. (14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings).

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