scholarly journals A Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Hate Speech Detection in the Saudi Twittersphere

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 8614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghad Alshalan ◽  
Hend Al-Khalifa

With the rise of hate speech phenomena in the Twittersphere, significant research efforts have been undertaken in order to provide automatic solutions for detecting hate speech, varying from simple machine learning models to more complex deep neural network models. Despite this, research works investigating hate speech problem in Arabic are still limited. This paper, therefore, aimed to investigate several neural network models based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) to detect hate speech in Arabic tweets. It also evaluated the recent language representation model bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) on the task of Arabic hate speech detection. To conduct our experiments, we firstly built a new hate speech dataset that contained 9316 annotated tweets. Then, we conducted a set of experiments on two datasets to evaluate four models: CNN, gated recurrent units (GRU), CNN + GRU, and BERT. Our experimental results in our dataset and an out-domain dataset showed that the CNN model gave the best performance, with an F1-score of 0.79 and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.89.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surafel Getachew Tesfaye ◽  
Kula Kakeba

Abstract During the last few years, social activities over the internet especially on social media platforms increased drastically, but unfortunately, social networks have also become the place for hate speech proliferation by which most people’s social lives are disturbed because of hate speech posts and conflicts triggered by those posts. Studies confirm that online hate speech has different offline consequences. Even though there are a lot of researches on automated hate speech detection most of them are for other language and there is a scarcity of labeled data to apply automated analysis and detection methods on Amharic dataset. Therefore the research on automatic detection of hate speech posts attracted our attention. As a solution to those problems, this research aimed to prepare a labeled huge Amharic dataset by collecting posts and comments from selected Facebook pages of activists that participated actively. Those Facebook data sets are labeled manually as hate and free based on the guidelines given from researcher and pre-processed by applying data cleaning and normalization techniques. In this research the recurrent neural network models for automated hate speech posts detection from Amharic posts on Facebook is developed by using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) with word n-grams for feature extraction and word2vec to represent each unique word by vector representation. The experiment conducted on those two models by using 80% of the data set for training and 10% for validation to train the model and to select the best hyper-parameters combination for automated hate speech posts detection. The remaining 10% of the dataset used for testing the model after training. As a result LSTM based RNN of Batch size 128, and learning rate 0.001 with RMSProp optimizer and 0.5 dropout achieves an accuracy of 97.9% to detect posts as hate speech or free by training with 100 epochs. Which is assured by testing the models using models performance test and inference on user-generated data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 140-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.N. Aleksandrova ◽  
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E.K. Ushakov ◽  
A.V. Orlova ◽  
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The neural network models series used in the development of an aggregated digital twin of equipment as a cyber-physical system are presented. The twins of machining accuracy, chip formation and tool wear are examined in detail. On their basis, systems for stabilization of the chip formation process during cutting and diagnose of the cutting too wear are developed. Keywords cyberphysical system; neural network model of equipment; big data, digital twin of the chip formation; digital twin of the tool wear; digital twin of nanostructured coating choice


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4242
Author(s):  
Fausto Valencia ◽  
Hugo Arcos ◽  
Franklin Quilumba

The purpose of this research is the evaluation of artificial neural network models in the prediction of stresses in a 400 MVA power transformer winding conductor caused by the circulation of fault currents. The models were compared considering the training, validation, and test data errors’ behavior. Different combinations of hyperparameters were analyzed based on the variation of architectures, optimizers, and activation functions. The data for the process was created from finite element simulations performed in the FEMM software. The design of the Artificial Neural Network was performed using the Keras framework. As a result, a model with one hidden layer was the best suited architecture for the problem at hand, with the optimizer Adam and the activation function ReLU. The final Artificial Neural Network model predictions were compared with the Finite Element Method results, showing good agreement but with a much shorter solution time.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 908
Author(s):  
Jie Zeng ◽  
Panagiotis G. Asteris ◽  
Anna P. Mamou ◽  
Ahmed Salih Mohammed ◽  
Emmanuil A. Golias ◽  
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Buried pipes are extensively used for oil transportation from offshore platforms. Under unfavorable loading combinations, the pipe’s uplift resistance may be exceeded, which may result in excessive deformations and significant disruptions. This paper presents findings from a series of small-scale tests performed on pipes buried in geogrid-reinforced sands, with the measured peak uplift resistance being used to calibrate advanced numerical models employing neural networks. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) primary structure types have been used to train two neural network models, which were then further developed using bagging and boosting ensemble techniques. Correlation coefficients in excess of 0.954 between the measured and predicted peak uplift resistance have been achieved. The results show that the design of pipelines can be significantly improved using the proposed novel, reliable and robust soft computing models.


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