• Computer Science
• Published in SemEval@NAACL-HLT 2019

UM-IU@LING at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying Offensive Tweets Using BERT and SVMs

@inproceedings{Zhu2019UMIULINGAS,
  title={UM-IU@LING at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying Offensive Tweets Using BERT and SVMs},
  author={Jian Zhu and Zuoyu Tian and Sandra K{\"u}bler},
  booktitle={SemEval@NAACL-HLT},
  year={2019}
}

• Jian Zhu, Zuoyu Tian, Sandra Kübler

This paper describes the UM-IU@LING's system for the SemEval 2019 Task 6: OffensEval. We take a mixed approach to identify and categorize hate speech in social media. In subtask A, we fine-tuned a BERT based classifier to detect abusive content in tweets, achieving a macro F1 score of 0.8136 on the test data, thus reaching the 3rd rank out of 103 submissions. In subtasks B and C, we used a linear SVM with selected character n-gram features. For subtask C, our system could identify the target of… CONTINUE READING

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