Edward Ombui

Psychosocial Features for Identifying Hate Speech in Social Media Text

Edward Ombui, Lawrence Muchemi & Peter Wagacha · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2021

This study uses natural language processing to identify hate speech in social media codeswitched text. It trains nine models and tests their predictiveness in recognizing hate speech in a 50k human-annotated dataset. The article proposes a novel hierarchical approach that leverag...