OSACT4 Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection: Intensive Preprocessing-Based Approach

Understand

The preprocessing phase is one of the key phases within the text classification pipeline.

• This study aims at investigating the impact of the preprocessing phase on text classification, specifically on offensive language and hate speech classification for Arabic text.
• The Arabic language used in social media is informal and written using Arabic dialects, which makes the text classification task very complex.
• Preprocessing helps in dimensionality reduction and removing useless content.