Hate Speech Detection in Social Media for the Kurdish Language

With the rapid growth of technology over the world, especially, on the
internet, people enormously use social media freely to express their ideologies.
Sometimes the freedom of media is caught up and the rights of others are beaten
down by hate speech. Moreover, social media is an easy and vague way to desecrate
people, groups, and parties since there is no any way to recognize anonymous
users over social media. Testing human speech is common for English, Arabic,
and Turkish languages while there is no attempt for the Kurdish language. For
that reason, the Kurdish hate speech dataset is collected from comments on the
Facebook application as an effort for detecting hate speech and removing them.
The raw dataset consists of 6882 comments which are divided into hate and hot
hate classes. Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), and Naïve
Bays (NB) algorithms are implemented and compared. Based on the results, the
SVM is found most excellent with the F1 measure being 0.687.