2021/04/17 by Andrei Paraschiv, Paraschiv, Andrei, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +3
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2104.08635
openalex publication_date 2021/04/17 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The real-world impact of polarization and toxicity in the online sphere\nmarked the end of 2020 and the beginning of this year in a negative way.\nSemeval-2021, Task 5 - Toxic Spans Detection is based on a novel annotation of\na subset of the Jigsaw Unintended Bias dataset and is the first language\ntoxicity detection task dedicated to identifying the toxicity-level spans. For\nthis task, participants had to automatically detect character spans in short\ncomments that render the message as toxic. Our model considers applying Virtual\nAdversarial Training in a semi-supervised setting during the fine-tuning\nprocess of several Transformer-based models (i.e., BERT and RoBERTa), in\ncombination with Conditional Random Fields. Our approach leads to performance\nimprovements and more robust models, enabling us to achieve an F1-score of\n65.73% in the official submission and an F1-score of 66.13% after further\ntuning during post-evaluation.\n