LSTM-Attention Architecture for Online Bilingual Sexism Detection

Abstract

The paper describes the results submitted by ‘Team-SMS’ at EXIST 2023. A dataset of 6920 tweets for training, 1038 for validation, and 2076 tweets for testing was provided by the task organizers to train and test our models. Our models include LSTM models coupled with attention layers and without attention. For calculation of soft scores according to the task we tried to mimic human performance by taking an average of different machine learning model predictions using Multinomial Naive Bayes, Linear Support Vector Classifier, Multi Layer Perceptron, XGBoost, LSTM using GloVe embeddings, and LSTM using fastText embeddings. We discuss our approach to remove the ambiguity in the labeling process and detailed description of our work. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.