the_linguists at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Novel Informal Bangla Fasttext Embedding for Violence Inciting Text Detection
Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Wasif Kader, Audwit Anam, Naimul Haque, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel informal Bangla word embedding for designing a cost-efficient solution for the task “Violence Inciting Text Detection” which focuses on developing classification systems to categorize violence that can potentially incite further violent actions. We propose a semi-supervised learning approach by training an informal Bangla FastText embedding, which is further fine-tuned on lightweight models on task specific dataset and yielded competitive results to our initial method using BanglaBERT, which secured the 7th position with an f1-score of 73.98%. We conduct extensive experiments to assess the efficiency of the proposed embedding and how well it generalizes in terms of violence classification, along with it’s coverage on the task’s dataset. Our proposed Bangla IFT embedding achieved a competitive macro average F1 score of 70.45%. Additionally, we provide a detailed analysis of our findings, delving into potential causes of misclassification in the detection of violence-inciting text.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.banglalp-1.26
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Firoj Alam, Sudipta Kar, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Farig Sadeque, Ruhul Amin
- Venue:
- BanglaLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 214–219
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.banglalp-1.26
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.banglalp-1.26
- Cite (ACL):
- Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Wasif Kader, Audwit Anam, Naimul Haque, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, and Md Kamrul Hasan. 2023. the_linguists at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Novel Informal Bangla Fasttext Embedding for Violence Inciting Text Detection. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023), pages 214–219, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- the_linguists at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Novel Informal Bangla Fasttext Embedding for Violence Inciting Text Detection (Tariquzzaman et al., BanglaLP 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.banglalp-1.26.pdf