Towards A Friendly Online Community: An Unsupervised Style Transfer Framework for Profanity Redaction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00403v1
• Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 02:10:25 GMT
• Title: Towards A Friendly Online Community: An Unsupervised Style Transfer Framework for Profanity Redaction
• Authors: Minh Tran, Yipeng Zhang, Mohammad Soleymani
• Abstract summary: Offensive and abusive language is a pressing problem on social media platforms. We propose a method for transforming offensive comments, statements containing profanity or offensive language, into non-offensive ones.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Offensive and abusive language is a pressing problem on social media platforms. In this work, we propose a method for transforming offensive comments, statements containing profanity or offensive language, into non-offensive ones. We design a RETRIEVE, GENERATE and EDIT unsupervised style transfer pipeline to redact the offensive comments in a word-restricted manner while maintaining a high level of fluency and preserving the content of the original text. We extensively evaluate our method's performance and compare it to previous style transfer models using both automatic metrics and human evaluations. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other models on human evaluations and is the only approach that consistently performs well on all automatic evaluation metrics.

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