no code implementations • EMNLP (ALW) 2020 • Jana Kurrek, Haji Mohammad Saleem, Derek Ruths
Abusive language classifiers have been shown to exhibit bias against women and racial minorities.
no code implementations • NAACL (WOAH) 2022 • Jana Kurrek, Haji Mohammad Saleem, Derek Ruths
Our paper highlights how community context can improve classification outcomes in abusive language detection.
no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Sunyam Bagga, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths
Abusive language in online discourse negatively affects a large number of social media users.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2020 • Caitrin Armstrong, Derek Ruths
In this paper we introduce Reddit legends, a collection of venerated old posts that have become famous on Reddit.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2019 • Logan Martel, Edward Newell, Drew Margolin, Derek Ruths
On the topic of journalistic integrity, the current state of accurate, impartial news reporting has garnered much debate in context to the 2016 US Presidential Election.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Koustuv Sinha, Yue Dong, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Derek Ruths
Deep neural networks have been displaying superior performance over traditional supervised classifiers in text classification.
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Kian Kenyon-Dean, Eisha Ahmed, Scott Fujimoto, Jeremy Georges-Filteau, Christopher Glasz, Barleen Kaur, Lal, Auguste e, Bh, Shruti eri, Robert Belfer, Nirmal Kanagasabai, Roman Sarrazingendron, Rohit Verma, Derek Ruths
In datasets constructed for the purpose of Twitter sentiment analysis (TSA), these controversial examples can compose over 30{\%} of the originally annotated data.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2017 • Edward Newell, Ariane Schang, Drew Margolin, Derek Ruths
When reporting the news, journalists rely on the statements of stakeholders, experts, and officials.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2017 • Haji Mohammad Saleem, Kelly P Dillon, Susan Benesch, Derek Ruths
Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech - content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Lucas Wright, Derek Ruths, Kelly P Dillon, Haji Mohammad Saleem, Susan Benesch
A study of conversations on Twitter found that some arguments between strangers led to favorable change in discourse and even in attitudes.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Hardik Vala, Stefan Dimitrov, David Jurgens, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths
To address the latter problem, this work presents three contributions: (1) a comprehensive scheme for manually resolving mentions to characters in texts.