@inproceedings{shanmugavadivel-etal-2025-kec-ai,
    title = "{KEC}{\_}{AI}{\_}{GRYFFINDOR}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in {D}ravidian languages",
    author = "Shanmugavadivel, Kogilavani  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      S, ShahidKhan  and
      Sashmitha.s, Shri  and
      S, Yashica",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Sherly, Elizabeth  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Cn, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya",
    booktitle = "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",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.31/",
    pages = "182--186",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-228-2",
    abstract = "It is difficult to detect hate speech in codemixed Dravidian languages because the data is multilingual and unstructured. We took part in the shared task to detect hate speech in text and audio data for Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu in this research. We tested different machine learning and deep learning models such as Logistic Regression, Ridge Classifier, Random Forest, and CNN. For Tamil, Logistic Regression gave the best macro-F1 score of 0.97 for text, whereas Ridge Classifier was the best for audio with a score of 0.75. For Malayalam, Random Forest gave the best F1-score of 0.97 for text, and CNN was the best for audio (F1 score: 0.69). For Telugu, Ridge Classifier gave the best F1-score of 0.89 for text, whereas CNN was the best for audio (F1-score: 0.87).Our findings prove that a multimodal solution effi ciently tackles the intricacy of hate speech detection in Dravidian languages. In this shared task,out of 145 teams we attained the 12th rank for Tamil and 7th rank for Malayalam and Telugu."
}