Lexicon-based Detection of Violence on Social Media.

Autor: Abdelzaher, Esra' M.
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Zdroj: Cognitive Semantics; 2019, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p32-69, 38p
Abstrakt: This study adopts a lexicon-based approach to address violence on social media. It uses FrameNet 1.7 (FN) and WordNet 3.1 (WN) to build a hierarchical domain-specific language resource of violence. The proposed lexicon tethers FN's innovative integration of linguistic and paralinguistic knowledge to WN's hierarchically-organized database. This tether alleviates the need to gather all paralinguistic violence-associated scenes and organize their linguistic realizations hierarchically. The proposed methodology can be internationally applied, given the multilingual availability of FN and WN, to cognitively and quantitatively explore a concept or a phenomenon. The lexicon is applied, then, to a corpus representing posts and comments retrieved from Donald Trump's Facebook public page. Results reveal that the proposed lexicon recalls 92.68 of the total violence-related words in the corpus with a 76.31 precision (F-score= 83.7). More important, relating WN to FN inspires the creation of new frames, suggests slight modifications to existing ones and advocates promising mapping between some frames and synsets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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