LexiLogic@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian languages

Billodal Roy, Pranav Gupta, Souvik Bhattacharyya, Niranjan Kumar M


Abstract
This paper describes our participation in the DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 shared task on hate speech detection in Dravidian languages. While the task provided both text transcripts and audio data, we demonstrate that competitive results can be achieved using text features alone. We employed fine-tuned Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) models from l3cube-pune for Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu languages. Our system achieved notable results, securing second position for Tamil and Malayalam tasks, and first position for Telugu in the official leaderboard.
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2025.dravidianlangtech-1.95
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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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552–556
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Billodal Roy, Pranav Gupta, Souvik Bhattacharyya, and Niranjan Kumar M. 2025. LexiLogic@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian languages. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 552–556, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LexiLogic@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian languages (Roy et al., DravidianLangTech 2025)
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