@inproceedings{yadawad-etal-2024-machine,
    title = "A Machine Learning Framework for Detecting Hate Speech and Fake Narratives in {H}indi-{E}nglish Tweets",
    author = "Yadawad, R.n.  and
      Saumya, Sunil  and
      Nivedh, K.n.  and
      Padanur, Siddhaling S.  and
      Basti, Sudev",
    editor = "Biradar, Shankar  and
      Reddy, Kasu Sai Kartheek  and
      Saumya, Sunil  and
      Akhtar, Md. Shad",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2024",
    address = "AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India",
    publisher = "NLP Association of India (NLPAI)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.icon-fauxhate.8/",
    pages = "40--44",
    abstract = "This paper presents a novel system developed for the Faux-Hate Shared Task at ICON2024, addressing the detection of hate speechand fake narratives within Hindi-English code-mixed social media data. Our approach com-bines advanced text preprocessing, TF-IDFvectorization, and Random Forest classifiersto identify harmful content, while employingSMOTE to address class imbalance. By lever-aging ensemble learning and feature engineer-ing, our system demonstrates robust perfor-mance in detecting hateful and fake content,classifying targets, and evaluating the sever-ity of hate speech. The results underscore thepotential for real-world applications, such asmoderating online platforms and identifyingharmful narratives. Furthermore, we highlightethical considerations for deploying such tools,emphasizing responsible use in sensitive do-mains, thereby advancing research in multilin-gual hate speech detection and online abusemitigation."
}