ANSR@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detection of Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media using RoBERTa and XGBoost

Nishanth S, Shruthi Rengarajan, S Ananthasivan, Burugu Rahul, Sachin Kumar S


Abstract
Abusive language directed at women on social media, often characterized by crude slang, offensive terms, and profanity, is not just harmful communication but also acts as a tool for serious and widespread cyber violence. It is imperative that this pressing issue be addressed in order to establish safer online spaces and provide efficient methods for detecting and minimising this kind of abuse. However, the intentional masking of abusive language, especially in regional languages like Tamil and Malayalam, presents significant obstacles, making detection and prevention more difficult. The system created effectively identifies abusive sentences using supervised machine learning techniques based on RoBerta embeddings. The method aims to improve upon the current abusive language detection systems, which are essential for various online platforms, including social media and online gaming services. The proposed method currently ranked 8 in malayalam and 20 in tamil in terms of f1 score.
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2025.dravidianlangtech-1.121
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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May
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2025
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Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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711–715
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Nishanth S, Shruthi Rengarajan, S Ananthasivan, Burugu Rahul, and Sachin Kumar S. 2025. ANSR@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detection of Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media using RoBERTa and XGBoost. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 711–715, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ANSR@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detection of Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media using RoBERTa and XGBoost (S et al., DravidianLangTech 2025)
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