Evaluating Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting Offensive and Hate Speech in South African Tweets

Evaluating Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting Offensive and Hate Speech in South African Tweets

In recent times, South Africa has been witnessing insurgence of offensive and hate speech along racial and ethnic dispositions on Twitter. Popular among the South African languages used is English. Although, machine learning has been successfully used to detect offensive and hate speech in several E...

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Main Authors: Oluwafemi Oriola, Eduan Kotze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
Machine learning
South Africa
Twitter
hate speech
offensive speech
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8963960/

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8963960/

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