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Modelling and Data Analysis
2022. Vol. 12, no. 1, 27–48
doi:10.17759/mda.2022120103
ISSN: 2219-3758 / 2311-9454 (online)

Identification and Classification of Toxic Statements by Machine Learning Methods

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E.N. Platonov, V.Y. Rudenko

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Abstract

The number of comments left on social media platforms can reach several million per day, so their owners are interested in automatic content filtering. In this paper, the task of identifying offensive statements in texts is considered. When solving the problem, various methods of vector text conversion were considered: TF-IDF, Word2Vec, Glove, etc. The results of the application of classical text classification methods and neural network methods (LSTM, CNN) were also considered and presented.

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Keywords: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Classification, Gradient boosting, XGBoost, CatBoost, Recurrent Neural Network, LSTM, Convolutional Neural Network

Journal rubric: Optimization Methods

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/mda.2022120103

Received: 18.01.2022

Accepted:

For citation: Platonov E.N., Rudenko V.Y. Identification and Classification of Toxic Statements by Machine Learning Methods. Modelirovanie i analiz dannikh = Modelling and Data Analysis, 2022. Vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 27–48. DOI: 10.17759/mda.2022120103. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Evgeniy N. Platonov, PhD in Physics and Matematics, Assistant Professor, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8502-1350, e-mail: en.platonov@gmail.com

Veronika Y. Rudenko, Student of the Institute of Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0010-331X, e-mail: super.ruden2011@mail.ru

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