An Experiment in Keyword-based Approach for Hate Speech Detection in Online Social Media Comments (SSRN)

As hate speech against a person or a group of people in social media platforms … take center stage in the field of computational linguistics, is a keyword-based approach worth considering to detect hate speech comments and classify them into groups? This paper aims at addressing this question by a means of a purposely designed algorithm applied on two datasets, one is Arabic and the other is English. Results from this experiment provides conclusions.

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