Explainable Offensive Language Classifier

Offensive content in social media has become a serious issue, due to which its automatic detection is a crucial task. Deep learning approaches for Natural Language Processing (or NLP) have proven to be on or even above human-level accuracy for offensive language detection tasks. Due to this, the deployment of deep learning models for these tasks is justified. However, there is one key aspect that these models lack, which is explainability, in contrast to humans. In this paper, we provide an explainable model for offensive language detection in the case of multi-task learning. Our model achieved an F1 score of 0.78 on the OLID dataset and 0.85 on the SOLID dataset. We also provide a detailed analysis of the model interpretability.