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Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20076v1
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:02:51 GMT
Title: Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language
Authors: Elena Beatrice Nicola, Dumitru Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop,
Abstract summary: Offensive language detection is a crucial task in today's digital landscape. Building robust offensive language detection models requires large amounts of labeled data. Semi-supervised learning offers a feasible solution by utilizing labeled and unlabeled data.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Abstract: Offensive language detection is a crucial task in today's digital landscape, where online platforms grapple with maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. However, building robust offensive language detection models requires large amounts of labeled data, which can be expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Semi-supervised learning offers a feasible solution by utilizing labeled and unlabeled data to create more accurate and robust models. In this paper, we explore a few different semi-supervised methods, as well as data augmentation techniques. Concretely, we implemented eight semi-supervised methods and ran experiments for them using only the available data in the RO-Offense dataset and applying five augmentation techniques before feeding the data to the models. Experimental results demonstrate that some of them benefit more from augmentations than others.