1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2019 • Chris Emmery, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Gilles Jacobs, Cynthia Van Hee, Els Lefever, Bart Desmet, Véronique Hoste, Walter Daelemans
The detection of online cyberbullying has seen an increase in societal importance, popularity in research, and available open data.
no code implementations • 17 Jan 2018 • Cynthia Van Hee, Gilles Jacobs, Chris Emmery, Bart Desmet, Els Lefever, Ben Verhoeven, Guy De Pauw, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste
While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ben Verhoeven, Iza {\v{S}}krjanec, Senja Pollak
Inspired by the TwiSty corpus and experiments (Verhoeven et al., 2016), we employed the Janes corpus (Erjavec et al., 2016) and its gender annotations to perform gender classification experiments on Twitter text comparing a token-based and a lemma-based approach.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2016 • Stéphan Tulkens, Lisa Hilte, Elise Lodewyckx, Ben Verhoeven, Walter Daelemans
The best-performing model used the manually cleaned dictionary and obtained an F-score of 0. 46 for the racist class on a test set consisting of unseen Dutch comments, retrieved from the same sites used for the training set.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Ben Verhoeven, Walter Daelemans, Barbara Plank
Personality profiling is the task of detecting personality traits of authors based on writing style.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ben Verhoeven, Walter Daelemans
We performed a supervised machine learning experiment using the SVM algorithm in a 10-fold cross-validation setup.