UO @ HaSpeeDe2: Ensemble Model for Italian Hate Speech Detection (short paper)

Abstract

English. This document describes our participation in the Hate Speech Detection task at Evalita 2020. Our system is based on deep learning techniques, specifically RNNs and attention mechanism, mixed with transformer representations and linguistic features. In the training process a multi task learning was used to increase the system effectiveness. The results show how some of the selected features were not a good combination within the model. Nevertheless, the generalization level achieved yield encourage results.