Findings of the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media: DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025

Saranya Rajiakodi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Shunmuga Priya Muthusamy Chinnan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Raja Meenakshi J, Kathiravan Pannerselvam, Rahul Ponnusamy, Bhuvaneswari Sivagnanam, Paul Buitelaar, Bhavanimeena K, Jananayagan Jananayagan, Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy


Abstract
This overview paper presents the findings of the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media, organized as part of DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. The task aimed to encourage the development of robust systems to detectabusive content targeting women in Tamil and Malayalam, two low-resource Dravidian languages. Participants were provided with annotated datasets containing abusive and nonabusive text curated from YouTube comments. We present an overview of the approaches and analyse the results of the shared task submissions. We believe the findings presented in this paper will be useful to researchers working in Dravidian language technology.
Anthology ID:
2025.dravidianlangtech-1.115
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Month:
May
Year:
2025
Address:
Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Editors:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
Venues:
DravidianLangTech | WS
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
671–681
Language:
URL:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.115/
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Saranya Rajiakodi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Shunmuga Priya Muthusamy Chinnan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Raja Meenakshi J, Kathiravan Pannerselvam, Rahul Ponnusamy, Bhuvaneswari Sivagnanam, Paul Buitelaar, Bhavanimeena K, Jananayagan Jananayagan, and Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy. 2025. Findings of the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media: DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 671–681, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Findings of the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media: DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 (Rajiakodi et al., DravidianLangTech 2025)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.115.pdf