@inproceedings{najafi-varol-2024-vrllab,
    title = "{VRLL}ab at {HSD}-2{L}ang 2024: {T}urkish Hate Speech Detection Online with {T}urkish{BERT}weet",
    author = "Najafi, Ali  and
      Varol, Onur",
    editor = {H{\"u}rriyeto{\u{g}}lu, Ali  and
      Tanev, Hristo  and
      Thapa, Surendrabikram  and
      Uludo{\u{g}}an, G{\"o}k{\c{c}}e},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2024)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2024",
    address = "St. Julians, Malta",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2024.case-1.25/",
    pages = "185--189",
    abstract = "Social media platforms like Twitter - recently rebranded as X - produce nearly half a billion tweets daily and host a significant number of users that can be affected by content that are not properly moderated. In this work, we present an approach that ranked third at the HSD-2Lang 2024 competition`s subtask-A along with additional methodology developed for this task and evaluation of different approaches. We utilize three different models and the best performing approach use publicly-available TurkishBERTweet model with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for fine tuning. We also experiment with another publicly available model and a novel methodology to ensemble different hand-crafted features and outcomes of different models. Finally, we report the experimental results, competition scores, and discussion to improve this effort further."
}