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Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media
Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri
In this paper we examine methods to detect hate speech in social media, while distinguishing this from general profanity. We aim to establish lexical baselines for this task by app…
Exploring the Use of Text Classification in the Legal Domain
Octavia-Maria Sulea, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi +3
In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification methods to support law professionals. We present several experiments applying machine learning techniques to pr…
Complex Word Identification: Challenges in Data Annotation and System Performance
Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Gustavo Paetzold +1
This paper revisits the problem of complex word identification (CWI) following up the SemEval CWI shared task. We use ensemble classifiers to investigate how well computational met…
Open-Set Language Identification
Shervin Malmasi
We present the first open-set language identification experiments using one-class classification. We first highlight the shortcomings of traditional feature extraction methods and…
Including Dialects and Language Varieties in Author Profiling
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi +1
This paper presents a computational approach to author profiling taking gender and language variety into account. We apply an ensemble system with the output of multiple linear SVM…
Native Language Identification using Stacked Generalization
Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras
Ensemble methods using multiple classifiers have proven to be the most successful approach for the task of Native Language Identification (NLI), achieving the current state of the…