Sexism Identification in Tweets and Gabs using Deep Neural Networks
Through anonymisation and accessibility, social media platforms have facilitated the proliferation of hate speech, prompting increased research in developing automatic methods to identify these texts. This paper explores the classification of sexism in text using a variety of deep neural network model architectures such as Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTMs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). These networks are used in conjunction with transfer learning in the form of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and DistilBERT models, along with data augmentation, to perform binary and multiclass sexism classification on the dataset of tweets and gabs from the sEXism Identification in Social neTworks (EXIST) task in IberLEF 2021. The models are seen to perform comparatively to those from the competition, with the best performances seen using BERT and a multi-filter CNN model. Data augmentation further improves these results for the multi-class classification task. This paper also explores the errors made by the models and discusses the difficulty in automatically classifying sexism due to the subjectivity of the labels and the complexity of natural language used in social media.
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