SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval)

Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Noura Farra, Ritesh Kumar
2019 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation  
We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2019 Task 6 on Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval). The task was based on a new dataset, the Offensive Language Identification Dataset (OLID), which contains over 14,000 English tweets. It featured three sub-tasks. In sub-task A, the goal was to discriminate between offensive and non-offensive posts. In sub-task B, the focus was on the type of offensive content in the post. Finally, in sub-task C,
more » ... stems had to detect the target of the offensive posts. OffensEval attracted a large number of participants and it was one of the most popular tasks in SemEval-2019. In total, about 800 teams signed up to participate in the task, and 115 of them submitted results, which we present and analyze in this report.
doi:10.18653/v1/s19-2010 dblp:conf/semeval/ZampieriMNRFK19 fatcat:lgcdjdp6yffmndgcg6tzfj4ufq