Abusive Language Detection on Arabic Social Media

Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy


Abstract
In this paper, we present our work on detecting abusive language on Arabic social media. We extract a list of obscene words and hashtags using common patterns used in offensive and rude communications. We also classify Twitter users according to whether they use any of these words or not in their tweets. We expand the list of obscene words using this classification, and we report results on a newly created dataset of classified Arabic tweets (obscene, offensive, and clean). We make this dataset freely available for research, in addition to the list of obscene words and hashtags. We are also publicly releasing a large corpus of classified user comments that were deleted from a popular Arabic news site due to violations the site’s rules and guidelines.
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W17-3008
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online
Month:
August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Zeerak Waseem, Wendy Hui Kyong Chung, Dirk Hovy, Joel Tetreault
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ALW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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52–56
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3008
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3008
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Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Darwish, and Walid Magdy. 2017. Abusive Language Detection on Arabic Social Media. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pages 52–56, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Abusive Language Detection on Arabic Social Media (Mubarak et al., ALW 2017)
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