DALC: the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus

Tommaso Caselli; Arjan Schelhaas; Marieke Weultjes; Folkert Leistra; Hylke van der Veen; Gerben Timmerman; Malvina Nissim

doi:10.18653/v1/2021.woah-1.6

DALC: the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus

Tommaso Caselli, Arjan Schelhaas, Marieke Weultjes, Folkert Leistra, Hylke van der Veen, Gerben Timmerman, Malvina Nissim

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Abstract

As socially unacceptable language become pervasive in social media platforms, the need for automatic content moderation become more pressing. This contribution introduces the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus (DALC v1.0), a new dataset with tweets manually an- notated for abusive language. The resource ad- dress a gap in language resources for Dutch and adopts a multi-layer annotation scheme modeling the explicitness and the target of the abusive messages. Baselines experiments on all annotation layers have been conducted, achieving a macro F1 score of 0.748 for binary classification of the explicitness layer and .489 for target classification.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm
Editors	Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Douwe Kiela, Mathias Lambert, Bertie Vidgen, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Zeerak Waseem
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	54-66
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.woah-1.6
Publication status	Published - 27-Jul-2021

Keywords

language models
hate speech
offensive language

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Caselli, T., Schelhaas, A., Weultjes, M., Leistra, F., van der Veen, H., Timmerman, G., & Nissim, M. (2021). DALC: the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus. In A. Mostafazadeh Davani, D. Kiela, M. Lambert, B. Vidgen, V. Prabhakaran, & Z. Waseem (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm (pp. 54-66). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.woah-1.6

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Caselli, T , Schelhaas, A, Weultjes, M, Leistra, F, van der Veen, H, Timmerman, G & Nissim, M 2021, DALC: the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus. in A Mostafazadeh Davani, D Kiela, M Lambert, B Vidgen, V Prabhakaran & Z Waseem (eds), Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 54-66. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.woah-1.6

DALC : the Dutch Abusive Language Corpus. / Caselli, Tommaso ; Schelhaas, Arjan; Weultjes, Marieke et al.

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm. ed. / Aida Mostafazadeh Davani; Douwe Kiela; Mathias Lambert; Bertie Vidgen; Vinodkumar Prabhakaran; Zeerak Waseem. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. p. 54-66.

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