JAS@DravidianLangTech 2025: Abusive Tamil Text targeting Women on Social Media

B Saathvik, Janeshvar Sivakumar, Thenmozhi Durairaj


Abstract
This paper presents our submission for Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil - DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. The aim is to classify whether a given comment is abusive towards women. Google’s MuRIL (Khanujaet al., 2021), a transformer-based multilingual model, is fine-tuned using the provided dataset to build the classification model. The datasetis preprocessed, tokenised, and formatted for model training. The model is trained and evaluated using accuracy, F1-score, precision, andrecall. Our approach achieved an evaluation accuracy of 77.76% and an F1-score of 77.65%. The lack of large, high-quality datasets forlow-resource languages has also been acknowledged.
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2025.dravidianlangtech-1.6
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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May
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2025
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Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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28–32
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B Saathvik, Janeshvar Sivakumar, and Thenmozhi Durairaj. 2025. JAS@DravidianLangTech 2025: Abusive Tamil Text targeting Women on Social Media. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 28–32, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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