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

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 21496-21509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwafemi Oriola ◽  
Eduan Kotze

The challenges that are to be faced while handling with hate speech is not a new thing. From thepast few years due to the boosted usage of internet, hateful activities across social media is increasing rapidly. Improved technology has made it possible to create a platform where people can feel free to share their opinions and experiences.it wouldn't be a problem if this is just the case. but we can also see hateful comments running throughout the social media targeting a person or a community. Hate speech is the statement that targets a person or community of people discriminating based on caste, creed, nationality etc. Our project aims at resolving the above problem by using Machine Learning techniques to automatically detect hate speech and classify them into various classes such as extremely positive, positive neutral etc. We have used classifier that works based on the lexicons and finally compare it with other classifiers that doesn't use lexicons. Aimed beneficiaries of this model are the people who are being targeted on social media. Based on the results they can calculate intensity of the comments.


From the last few years, researchers are very much attracted to sentiment analysis, especially towards hate speech detectionsystems. As in different languages procreation of hate speech has compelling and symbolic consideration on social media. Hate speech has a great impact on society, using hate words harms others dignity. Hate speech detectionsystems areimportant to stop the transformation of hate words into crimes. In this research,a frameworkis developedfor hate speech detectionsystemin the Pashto language. A datasetis created for which data is collected from Twitter. Because there is no related data available. Most of the research work has been done in this domain for other languages, and it’s very maturein the context of detecting hate speech. But when it arrives at the morphological languages not much work has been done especially in the Pashto language. This researchaimed and collected data from Twitter, Tweets related to ethnicity and religion. The data collected from twitter has been annotated manually and categorized the data as hate or not by comparing it with the offensive content. For hate speechdetection systemsto view the impact of different features/attribute this study performed experiments on the existing classifiers i.e.,SVM, Naïve Bayes, Decision tree and KNN. SVM produced the highest result at dataset of 500 i.e.,74% among all the classifiers. KNN and Decision Tree produced same result at dataset of 1500 i.e.,65.0%. Dataset of 2800 Decision Tree produced the highest result i.e.,72% and SVM produced 71.9%.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Schreiner ◽  
Kari Torkkola ◽  
Mike Gardner ◽  
Keshu Zhang

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Li-Pang Chen

In this paper, we investigate analysis and prediction of the time-dependent data. We focus our attention on four different stocks are selected from Yahoo Finance historical database. To build up models and predict the future stock price, we consider three different machine learning techniques including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Support Vector Regression (SVR). By treating close price, open price, daily low, daily high, adjusted close price, and volume of trades as predictors in machine learning methods, it can be shown that the prediction accuracy is improved.


Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 389-P
Author(s):  
SATORU KODAMA ◽  
MAYUKO H. YAMADA ◽  
YUTA YAGUCHI ◽  
MASARU KITAZAWA ◽  
MASANORI KANEKO ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Anantvir Singh Romana

Accurate diagnostic detection of the disease in a patient is critical and may alter the subsequent treatment and increase the chances of survival rate. Machine learning techniques have been instrumental in disease detection and are currently being used in various classification problems due to their accurate prediction performance. Various techniques may provide different desired accuracies and it is therefore imperative to use the most suitable method which provides the best desired results. This research seeks to provide comparative analysis of Support Vector Machine, Naïve bayes, J48 Decision Tree and neural network classifiers breast cancer and diabetes datsets.


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