FRANCISCO RANGEL;
BERTa CHULVI;
GRETEL LIZ DE LA PEÑA;
ELISABETTA FERSINI;
PAOLO ROSSO
Task
Hate speech (HS) is commonly defined as any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, colour, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristics. Given the huge amount of user-generated contents on Twitter, the problem of detecting, and therefore possibly contrasting the HS diffusion, is becoming fundamental, for instance for fighting against misogyny and xenophobia. To this end, in this task, we aim at identifying possible hate speech spreaders on Twitter as a first step towards preventing hate speech from being propagated among online users.
After having addressed several aspects of author profiling in social media from 2013 to 2020 (fake news spreaders, bot detection, age and gender, also together with personality, gender and language variety, and gender from a multimodality perspective), this year we aim at investigating if it is possible to discriminate authors that have shared some hate speech in the past from those that, to the best of our knowledge, have never done it.
As in previous years, we propose the task from a multilingual perspective:
English
Spanish
NOTE: Although we recommend participating in both languages (English and Spanish), it is possible to address the problem just for one language.
Award
We are happy to announce that the best performing team at the 9th International Competition on Author Profiling will be awarded 300,- Euro sponsored by Symanto
Data
Input
The uncompressed dataset consists of a folder per language (en, es). Each folder contains:
An XML file per author (Twitter user) with 100 tweets. The name of the XML file corresponding to the unique author id.
A truth.txt file with the list of authors and the ground truth.
Your software must take as input the absolute path to an unpacked dataset, and has to output for each document of the dataset a corresponding XML file that looks like this:
<author id="author-id"
lang="en|es"
type="0|1"
/>
The naming of the output files is up to you. However, we recommend using the author-id as filename and "XML" as an extension.
IMPORTANT! Languages should not be mixed. A folder should be created for each language and place inside only the files with the prediction for this language.
Evaluation
The performance of your system will be ranked by accuracy. For each language, we will calculate individual accuracies in discriminating between the two classes. Finally, we will average the accuracy values per language to obtain the final ranking.
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[15] Francisco Rangel, Fabio Celli, Paolo Rosso, Martin Pottast, Benno Stein, Walter Daelemans. Overview of the 3rd Author Profiling Task at PAN 2015.In: Linda Cappelato and Nicola Ferro and Gareth Jones and Eric San Juan (Eds.): CLEF 2015 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, 8-11 September, Toulouse, France. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. ISSN 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1391/,2015.
[16] Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Irina Chugur, Martin Potthast, Martin Trenkmann, Benno Stein, Ben Verhoeven, Walter Daelemans. Overview of the 2nd Author Profiling Task at PAN 2014. In: Cappellato L., Ferro N., Halvey M., Kraaij W. (Eds.) CLEF 2014 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers. CEUR-WS.org, vol. 1180, pp. 898-827.
[17] Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Moshe Koppel, Efstatios Stamatatos, Giacomo Inches. Overview of the Author Profiling Task at PAN 2013. In: Forner P., Navigli R., Tufis D. (Eds.)Notebook Papers of CLEF 2013 LABs and Workshops. CEUR-WS.org, vol. 1179
[19] Francisco Rangel, Marc Franco-Salvador, Paolo Rosso A Low Dimensionality Representation for Language Variety Identification. In: Postproc. 17th Int. Conf. on Comput. Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing-2016, Springer-Verlag, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, LNCS(9624), pp. 156-169 (arXiv:1705.10754)
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