Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/IJST/v14i31.1019
Year: 2021, Volume: 14, Issue: 31, Pages: 2567-2578
Original Article
Naol Bakala Defersha1*, Kula Kekeba Tune2
1Core Member, Center of Excellence for HPC and Big Data Analytics; Ph.D. Student, Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology, Addis Ababa, 16417, Ethiopia
2Head, Center of Excellence for HPC and Big Data Analytics; Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Adidas Ababa, 16417, Ethiopia
*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:04 June 2021, Accepted Date:16 August 2021, Published Date:22 September 2021
Objectives: This study aims to develop a hate speech detection model for Afan Oromo’s texts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter using a machine learning algorithm. Methods: we collected comments and posts from social media like Facebook and Twitter pages of BBC Afan Oromo, OBN Afan Oromo, Fana Afan Oromo Program, Politicians, Activists, Religious Men, and Oromia Communication Bureau using Face pager tool. The collected data was labelled using Afan Oromo hate speech evaluation system we developed. Text preprocessing tasks applied on data to remove special characters, stop-words,HTML Tags, extra whitespaces, numbers, lemmatization. The n-gram and TFIDF was applied for feature extraction task to obtain benchmark Afan Oromo hate speech detection dataset. Researchers split dataset into train and test set. Finally, we applied Support Vector Classifier, Multinomial NB, Linear Support Vector Classifier, Logistic Regression decision tree and Random Forest Classifier on 67% of trained data. The performance of proposed model also evaluated using F-score. We also test the performance of developed model by loading test set into it. Findings: Hate speech on social media violates the welfare of Ethnic groups and citizens for living together. Many researches have been doing for English, Amharic, and other Languages to detect hate content from social media. This study has focused on developing a prototype for Afan Oromo hate speech detection model using machine learning algorithms and evaluate its performance in which we found Linear Support Vector Classifier scored highest f1-score value is 64%. Novelty: Afan Oromo hate speech detection framework proposed and successfully implemented to develop Afan Oromo hate speech detection model. We wrote python script that overcome problems typos in Afan Oromo in addition to designing python scripts that recognized apostrophe “ ’ ” as important letter for Afan Oromo word formation. Yet, no researchers have used combination of n-gram and TF-IDF for feature extraction. In this study, the n-gram and TF-IDF used for feature extraction approach to build model that detect Afan Oromo hate speech on Social media.
Keywords: Afan Oromo; Decision tree; Facebook; Hate Speech; Linear Support Vector Classifier; Machine Learning; MultinomialNB; Social Media; Support Vector Classifier; Decision Tree and Random Forest Classifier
© 2021 Defersha & Tune. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Published By Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee)
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