Abstract
Industrial content moderation must process massive message streams under tight latency constraints, yet most abusive language (AL) detection systems rely on sentence-level classification (ALC), which neither localizes abusive spans nor identifies who is targeted. We define Abusive Language Identification (ALI) as a sequence-labeling task that jointly extracts AL spans and target mentions, and assess whether this approach can be used for text moderation. On a pilot corpus drawn from a production moderation pipeline, we compare ALI with ALC on cross-domain generalization and implicit abuse, and we also evaluate AL and target span detection. ALI remains competitive with ALC while providing localized outputs for moderators, with a modest and configuration-sensitive advantage on implicit abuse. Exact AL boundaries and target spans remain difficult to recover. We complement this comparison with a qualitative analysis and discuss perspectives on complete target--span linking and on structured benchmarks for ALI.
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APA 7
Zampieri, N., Lopez, I., Girard, M., & Auguste, J. (2026). From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification
MLA 9
Zampieri, Nicolas, et al. "From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification.
Chicago (author–date)
Zampieri, Nicolas, Ignacio Lopez, Manon Girard, and Jeremy Auguste. 2026. "From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification.
Harvard
Zampieri, N., Lopez, I., Girard, M. and Auguste, J. (2026) 'From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification.
Vancouver
Zampieri N, Lopez I, Girard M, Auguste J. From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification
IEEE
N. Zampieri, I. Lopez, M. Girard, and J. Auguste, "From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-abusive-language-classification-to-sequence-labeling-identification.