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Table 1 Machine classification performance for cyber hate based on disability, race and sexual orientation (results rounded to 2dp)

From: Us and them: identifying cyber hate on Twitter across multiple protected characteristics

 

Religion (baseline)

Disability

Race

Sexual orientation

P

R

F

P

R

F

P

R

F

P

R

F

n-Gram words 1 to 5 with 2,000 features

0.80 FP = 38

0.69 FN = 69

0.74

0.969 FP = 1

0.608 FN = 20

0.73

0.72 FP = 15

0.54 FN = 32

0.62

0.53 FP = 67

0.42 FN = 107

0.47

n-Gram hateful terms

0.89 FP = 19

0.66 FN = 75

0.76

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.93 FP = 3

0.53 FN = 33

0.67

1.00 FP = 0

0.098 FN = 165

0.18

n-Gram words (1-5) with 2,000 features + hateful terms

0.74 FP = 58

0.65 FN = 78

0.69

0.89 FP = 4

0.61 FN = 20

0.72

0.79 FP = 13

0.71 FP = 20

0.75

0.57 FP = 60

0.44 FN = 105

0.49

n-Gram typed dependencies

0.53 FP = 48

0.24 FP = 168

0.33

0.97 FP = 1

0.61 FP = 20

0.75

0.87 FP = 3

0.29 FN = 50

0.43

0.95 FP = 2

0.22 FN = 142

0.36

n-Gram typed dependencies+hateful terms

0.89 FP = 19

0.69 FN = 70

0.77

0.97 FP = 1

0.61 FP = 20

0.75

0.91 FP = 4

0.59 FN = 29

0.71

0.96 FP = 2

0.27 FN = 134

0.42

n-Gram words (1-5) with 2,000 features + n-Gram typed dependencies+hateful terms

0.89 FP = 19

0.69 FN = 70

0.77

0.97 FP = 1

0.61 FN = 20

0.75

0.87 FP = 7

0.66 FN = 24

0.75

0.72 FP = 25

0.35 FN = 119

0.47