HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Aliyu Yusuf, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan
Abstract
We present the findings of our participation in the SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS) task, a shared task on offensive language (sexism) detection on English Gab and Reddit dataset. We investigated the effects of transferring two language models: XLM-T (sentiment classification) and HateBERT (same domain - Reddit) for multilevel classification into Sexist or not Sexist, and other subsequent sub-classifications of the sexist data. We also use synthetic classification of unlabelled dataset and intermediary class information to maximize the performance of our models. We submitted a system in Task A, and it ranked 49th with F1-score of 0.82. This result showed to be competitive as it only under-performed the best system by 0.052%F1-score.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.semeval-1.273
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1983–1987
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.273
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.273
- Cite (ACL):
- Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Aliyu Yusuf, and Falalu Ibrahim Lawan. 2023. HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1983–1987, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification (Aliyu et al., SemEval 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2023.semeval-1.273.pdf