Use of Data Augmentation Techniques in Detection of Antisocial Behavior Using Deep Learning Methods

Viera Maslej-Krešňáková, Martin Sarnovský () and Júlia Jacková
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Viera Maslej-Krešňáková: Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
Martin Sarnovský: Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
Júlia Jacková: Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: The work presented in this paper focuses on the use of data augmentation techniques applied in the domain of the detection of antisocial behavior. Data augmentation is a frequently used approach to overcome issues related to the lack of data or problems related to imbalanced classes. Such techniques are used to generate artificial data samples used to improve the volume of the training set or to balance the target distribution. In the antisocial behavior detection domain, we frequently face both issues, the lack of quality labeled data as well as class imbalance. As the majority of the data in this domain is textual, we must consider augmentation methods suitable for NLP tasks. Easy data augmentation (EDA) represents a group of such methods utilizing simple text transformations to create the new, artificial samples. Our main motivation is to explore EDA techniques’ usability on the selected tasks from the antisocial behavior detection domain. We focus on the class imbalance problem and apply EDA techniques to two problems: fake news and toxic comments classification. In both cases, we train the convolutional neural networks classifier and compare its performance on the original and EDA-extended datasets. EDA techniques prove to be very task-dependent, with certain limitations resulting from the data they are applied on. The model’s performance on the extended toxic comments dataset did improve only marginally, gaining only 0.01 improvement in the F1 metric when applying only a subset of EDA methods. EDA techniques in this case were not suitable enough to handle texts written in more informal language. On the other hand, on the fake news dataset, the performance was improved more significantly, boosting the F1 score by 0.1. Improvement was most significant in the prediction of the minor class, where F1 improved from 0.67 to 0.86.

Keywords: data augmentation; EDA; deep learning; antisocial behavior; fake news detection; toxic comments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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