Beginner Guide to Building a Hate Speech Classifier with BERT
Daniela Joaquin2025-07-08T13:54:15+00:00You've seen the warnings: "This comment may violate our community guidelines," or you've watched online posts or videos get flagged and removed due to their hate speech content. This means that the platform is already using models to detect harmful content. However, have you ever questioned how these models work? How are these models able to understand human sarcasm, cultural slang, and even multilingual language in one sentence? In this guide, we'll walk through the process of building your OWN speech classifier using a well-known transformer model, BERT. This article guides you to a beginner-friendly beginning in modeling and machine learning. [...]