MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri

NAACL, 2021

The interest in offensive content identification in social media has grown substantially in recent years. Previous work has dealt mostly with post level annotations. However, identifying offensive spans is useful in many ways. To help coping with this important challenge, we present MUDES, a multilingual system to detect offensive spans in texts. MUDES features pre-trained models, a Python API for developers, and a user-friendly web-based interface. A detailed description of MUDES’ components is presented in this paper.

Cited by 7 publications.

Field of study: Computer Science

10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-demos.17