Detection of Threat Records by Analyzing the Tweets in Urdu Language Exploring Deep Learning Transformer - Based Models

Abstract

As humans, we express sadness, anger, happiness, frustration, bullying, etc., in both physical and virtual worlds. In the virtual world, i.e., social media, we use textual ways to express ourselves. Due to the lack of offensive and threatening language detection mechanisms aggressive behavior in social media is not always followed by an immediate consequence. But the impact of these posts on the victim can cause prolonged mental illness and instigate fear for social media platforms. This paper aims to identify threatening posts using deep learning transformer-based models such as Roberta. The Urdu tweet dataset used in this study has been provided by HASOC-2021 which aims to identify Hate speech and offensive remarks without human assistance. We submitted our model in its subtask B of the 4th subtrack(Abusive and Threatening language detection in Urdu), secured 2nd position on the public leaderboard, and obtained Weighted f1 of 0.5346 and ROC AUC of 0. 8199.