Gender Based Violence

Gender-based violence or GBV is an ongoing and ever-resent scourge around the world and is particularly prevalent in developing and least-developed countries Gender-based violence also increased in many parts of the world One of the greatest challenges in combating GBV is the culture of silence where victims of violence are scared, ashamed or intimidated to discuss their experiences with others and often do not report their experiences to authorities

OBJECTIVES

-This repository is model of machine learning that classifies tweets about GBV into one of five categories: sexual violence, emotional violence, harmful traditional practices, physical violence and economic violence.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

install the dependencies for this project by running the following commands in your terminal:

 pip install -r requirements.txt

run the model by running the following command in your terminal:

python src/train.py --num_labels=<num_labels>  \
                    --batch_size=<batch_size>  \
                    --epochs=<epochs>