A Unified System for Aggression Identification in English Code-Mixed and Uni-Lingual Texts

15 Jan 2020  ·  Anant Khandelwal, Niraj Kumar ·

Wide usage of social media platforms has increased the risk of aggression, which results in mental stress and affects the lives of people negatively like psychological agony, fighting behavior, and disrespect to others. Majority of such conversations contains code-mixed languages[28]. Additionally, the way used to express thought or communication style also changes from one social media plat-form to another platform (e.g., communication styles are different in twitter and Facebook). These all have increased the complexity of the problem. To solve these problems, we have introduced a unified and robust multi-modal deep learning architecture which works for English code-mixed dataset and uni-lingual English dataset both.The devised system, uses psycho-linguistic features and very ba-sic linguistic features. Our multi-modal deep learning architecture contains, Deep Pyramid CNN, Pooled BiLSTM, and Disconnected RNN(with Glove and FastText embedding, both). Finally, the system takes the decision based on model averaging. We evaluated our system on English Code-Mixed TRAC 2018 dataset and uni-lingual English dataset obtained from Kaggle. Experimental results show that our proposed system outperforms all the previous approaches on English code-mixed dataset and uni-lingual English dataset.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Text Classification Facebook Media Our proposed method Model Averaging(D + E + F) F1 (Hidden Test Set) 0.677 # 1
Text Classification Twitter-US Our proposed method Model Averaging(D + E + F) F1 (Hidden Test Set) 0.648 # 1

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