New tool detects weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media.
problem Detecting Islamophobic hate speech on social media is challenging due to its varied nature.
method Built a multi-class classifier distinguishing between non-Islamophobic, weak Islamophobic, and strong Islamophobic content using GloVe word embeddings.
result Accuracy of 77.6% and balanced accuracy of 83% on a dataset of 109,488 tweets.