Essays about: "offensive language"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words offensive language.

  1. 1. A Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from

    Author : Rudy Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Heart of Darkness; Race; Essentialism; Anti-essentialism;

    Abstract : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Hybrid Approach to Hate Speech Detection

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Simon Rickardsson; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : An interesting question is to what extent can background knowledge help in the context of text classification. To address this in more detail, can a traditional rulebased classifier help boost the accuracy of learned models? We explore this here for detecting hate speech and offensive language in online text. READ MORE

  4. 3. Let’s Talk about Sex...uality, Consent and Relationships: Teachers’ Views on and Approaches towards Teaching Sexuality, Consent and Relationships in the English Classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jeanette Rolfsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Sex education; sexualitet samtycke och relationer; fundamental values; EFL; teacher attitudes; critical discourse analysis; Fairclough; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In recent years, it has been reported that sex education in Swedish schools has been lacking, and, thus, in 2022, new guidelines for sex education were implemented (sexuality consent and relationships, SCaR). This change meant that sex education is part of all curricula and that the responsibility to teach it rests on teachers of all subjects. READ MORE

  5. 4. Multi-Label Toxic Comment Classification Using Machine Learning: An In-Depth Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Matilda Froste; Mosa Hosseini; [2023]
    Keywords : natural language processing; machine learning; offensive speech detection; transformers; multi-label classification; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The classification of toxic comments is a well-researched area with many techniques available. However, effectively managing multi-label categorization still requires a considerable amount of work. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Tom Södahl Bladsjö; [2022-08-12]
    Keywords : Machine Translation; Descriptive Translation Studies; Slurs; Sensitive Language; Offensive Language; Lexical Semantics;

    Abstract : The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the rising demands, the subtitling industry has been reluctant to embrace this trend. READ MORE