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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…
Compiling and Processing Historical and Contemporary Portuguese Corpora
Marcos Zampieri
This technical report describes the framework used for processing three large Portuguese corpora. Two corpora contain texts from newspapers, one published in Brazil and the other p…
Linguistic Features of Genre and Method Variation in Translation: A Computational Perspective
Ekaterina Lapshninova-Koltunski, Marcos Zampieri
In this paper we describe the use of text classification methods to investigate genre and method variation in an English - German translation corpus. For this purpose we use lingui…
Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases
Octavia-Maria Sulea, Marcos Zampieri, Mihaela Vela +1
In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification methods to predict the law area and the decision of cases judged by the French Supreme Court. We also investiga…
Native Language Identification on Text and Speech
Marcos Zampieri, Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu
This paper presents an ensemble system combining the output of multiple SVM classifiers to native language identification (NLI). The system was submitted to the NLI Shared Task 201…
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…