Abstract
The increasing accessibility of the internet facilitated social media usage and encouraged individuals to express their opinions liberally. Nevertheless, it also creates a place for content polluters to disseminate offensive posts or contents. Most of such offensive posts are written in a cross-lingual manner and can easily evade the online surveillance systems. This paper presents an automated system that can identify offensive text from multilingual code-mixed data. In the task, datasets provided in three languages including Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada code-mixed with English where participants are asked to implement separate models for each language. To accomplish the tasks, we employed two machine learning techniques (LR, SVM), three deep learning (LSTM, LSTM+Attention) techniques and three transformers (m-BERT, Indic-BERT, XLM-R) based methods. Results show that XLM-R outperforms other techniques in Tamil and Malayalam languages while m-BERT achieves the highest score in the Kannada language. The proposed models gained weighted f_1 score of 0.76 (for Tamil), 0.93 (for Malayalam ), and 0.71 (for Kannada) with a rank of 3rd, 5th and 4th respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.dravidianlangtech-1.35
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Kyiv
- Editors:
- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly
- Venue:
- DravidianLangTech
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 255–261
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.35
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Omar Sharif, Eftekhar Hossain, and Mohammed Moshiul Hoque. 2021. NLP-CUET@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Detection from Multilingual Code-Mixed Text using Transformers. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 255–261, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NLP-CUET@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Detection from Multilingual Code-Mixed Text using Transformers (Sharif et al., DravidianLangTech 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-07/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.35.pdf
- Code
- eftekhar-hossain/CUET_NLP-EACL_2021