Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language
<|reference_start|>Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language: Offensive language detection is a crucial task in today's digital landscape, where online platforms grapple with maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. However, building robust offensive language detection models requires large amounts of labeled data, which can be expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Semi-supervised learning offers a feasible solution by utilizing labeled and unlabeled data to create more accurate and robust models. In this paper, we explore a few different semi-supervised methods, as well as data augmentation techniques. Concretely, we implemented eight semi-supervised methods and ran experiments for them using only the available data in the RO-Offense dataset and applying five augmentation techniques before feeding the data to the models. Experimental results demonstrate that some of them benefit more from augmentations than others.<|reference_end|>
@article{nicola2024investigating,
    title={Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data
  Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language},
    author={Elena-Beatrice Nicola, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20076},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.20076},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}