Papers by Ashwin Pathak
AbuseAnalyzer: Abuse Detection, Severity and Target Prediction for Gab Posts (2020.coling-main)
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Mohit Chandra, Ashwin Pathak, Eesha Dutta, Paryul Jain, Manish Gupta, Manish Shrivastava, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
| Challenge: | Existing studies on estimating the severity of abuse and the target of online abuse have focused on detecting and curtailment of such types of abuse. |
| Approach: | They propose to analyze online abuse from the perspective of presence, severity and target of abusive behavior from 7,601 posts from Gab and to estimate the severity of abuse. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves 80% accuracy for abuse presence, 82% accuracy for abusive target prediction, and 65% accuracy for severity prediction. |