LSV-UdS at HASOC 2019: The Problem of Defining Hate

We describe our English, German and Hindi SVM and BERTbased hate speech classifiers, which includes the top-performing model for the German sub-task B. A special focus is laid on the exploration of various external corpora, the lack of mutual compatibility and the conclusions that arise from this.

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