no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Charitha Elvitigala, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Kasun Gunawardana, Menasha Thilakaratne, Kasun De Zoysa, Katrina Falkner
People often utilise online media (e. g., Facebook, Reddit) as a platform to express their psychological distress and seek support.
no code implementations • ALTA 2020 • Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Georgia Zhang, Katrina Falkner
Our best performing ensemble model based on DistilBERT has achieved 0. 73 and 0. 74 of F1 score in the task of classifying hate speech (Task A) and aggressiveness and target (Task B) respectively.
2 code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • Mahen Herath, Thushari Atapattu, Hoang Anh Dung, Christoph Treude, Katrina Falkner
This paper describes the systems our team (AdelaideCyC) has developed for SemEval Task 12 (OffensEval 2020) to detect offensive language in social media.
no code implementations • EMNLP (ALW) 2020 • Gathika Ratnayaka, Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Georgia Zhang, Katrina Falkner
Cyberbullying is a prevalent social problem that inflicts detrimental consequences to the health and safety of victims such as psychological distress, anti-social behaviour, and suicide.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Menasha Thilakaratne, Katrina Falkner, Thushari Atapattu
This will also introduce new areas of research that can be successfully linked with their research discipline.