Offensive Language Detection on Social Media Using Three Language Models and Three Datasets

There are more and more offensive posts on Social Media nowadays.Those posts are harmful and should be treated seriously.The most efficient way to detect offensive posts is to fine-tune a Large Language Model (LLM) on an offensive language dataset.In our research, we focus on maximizing the capacity of LLMs on offensive language detection tasks on Social Media.We select three LLMs with different attributes (DeepMoji, Bert, and HateBert) and three offensive language datasets (OLID, Curious Cat, and Ask FM).We mainly discuss achieving the best performance by configuring the LLMs and datasets.Experimental results show that simply fine-tuning an LLM with larger data can not always achieve the best performance.The combination of LLMs was effective, especially the combination of DeepMoji and HateBert.