no code implementations • WS 2019 • Sima Sharifirad, Stan Matwin
In addition, we identify ten female figures from different professions and racial backgrounds who have experienced harassment on Twitter.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Sima Sharifirad, Alon Jacovi
Sexism is very common in social media and makes the boundaries of free speech tighter for female users.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2019 • Sima Sharifirad, Stan Matwin
Sexism is very common in social media and makes the boundaries of freedom tighter for feminist and female users.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Sima Sharifirad, Borna Jafarpour, Stan Matwin
While sexism has been considered as a category of hateful speech in the literature, there is no comprehensive definition and category of sexism attracting natural language processing techniques.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Sima Sharifirad, Borna Jafarpour, Stan Matwin
In our text generation approach, we generate new tweets by replacing words using data acquired from ConceptNet relations in order to increase the size of our training set, this method is very helpful with frustratingly small datasets, preserves the label and increases diversity.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2018 • Sima Sharifirad, Azra Nazari, Mehdi Ghatee
These four pre-processing methods are combined with 1NN and J48 classifiers and their performance are compared with the previous methods on 11 imbalanced datasets from KEEL repository.