Lone Pine at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Fine-Grained Detection of Hate Speech Using BERToxic

Yakoob Khan, Weicheng Ma, Soroush Vosoughi

This paper describes our approach to the Toxic Spans Detection problem (SemEval-2021 Task 5). We propose BERToxic, a system that fine-tunes a pre-trained BERT model to locate toxic…