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+# MUDES - {Mu}ltilingual {De}tection of Offensive {S}pans
+
+We provide state-of-the-art models to detect toxic spans in text. We have evaluated our models on Toxic Spans task at SemEval 2021 (Task 5).
+
+
+## Usage
+You can use this model when you have [MUDES](https://github.com/TharinduDR/MUDES) installed:
+
+```bash
+pip install mudes
+```
+
+Then you can use the model like this:
+
+```python
+from mudes.app.mudes_app import MUDESApp
+
+app = MUDESApp("multilingual-large", use_cuda=False)
+print(app.predict_toxic_spans("You motherfucking cunt", spans=True))
+
+```
+
+## System Demonstration
+An experimental demonstration interface called MUDES-UI has been released on [GitHub](https://github.com/TharinduDR/MUDES-UI) and can be checked out in [here](http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/mudes/).
+
+
+## Citing & Authors
+
+If you find this model helpful, feel free to cite our publication
+
+```bash
+@inproceedings{ranasinghemudes,
+ title={{MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans}}, 
+ author={Tharindu Ranasinghe and Marcos Zampieri},  
+ booktitle={Proceedings of NAACL},
+ year={2021}
+}
+```
+
+```bash
+@inproceedings{ranasinghe2021semeval,
+  title={{WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans}},
+  author = {Ranasinghe, Tharindu  and Sarkar, Diptanu and Zampieri, Marcos and Ororbia, Alex},
+  booktitle={Proceedings of SemEval},
+  year={2021}
+}
+```