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GermEval 19

Offensive Language Identification using a German BERT Model

Abstract

Pre-training language representations on large text corpora, for example, with BERT, has recently shown to achieve impressive performance at a variety of downstream NLP tasks. So far, applying BERT to offensive language identification for German-language texts failed due to the lack of pre-trained, German-language models. In this paper, we fine-tune a BERT model that was pre-trained on 12 GB of German texts to the task of offensive language identification. This model significantly outperforms our baselines and achieves a macro F1 score of 76% on coarse-grained, 51% on fine-grained, and 73% on implicit/explicit classification. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the model and derive promising directions for future work.

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