@inproceedings{rishta-etal-2026-cuet,
    title = "{CUET}{\_}{SYNTHETICA}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2026: Multi Architecture Transformer Ensemble for Detecting Abusive {T}amil Text Targeting Women",
    author = "Rishta, Miftahul Jannat  and
      Zaman, Sumaiya  and
      Chowdhury, Shiti  and
      Murad, Hasan",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Navaneethakrishnan, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Shanmugavadivel, Kogilavani  and
      Rajalakshmi, Ratnavel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for {D}ravidian Languages",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Underline (Virtual)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.dravidianlangtech-1.29/",
    pages = "212--216",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-401-9",
    abstract = "Abusive language targeting women has been a serious problem on Tamil social media and building systems to detect it automatically is harder than it looks. Tamil is morphologically complex, people have written it mixed with English in ways no dictionary has accounted for and a lot of the hostility has been indirect enough that has slipped past models trained on surface patterns. In the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil Text Targeting Women on Social Media DravidianLangTech@ACL 2026, we have worked on classifying Tamil YouTube comments as Abusive or Non-Abusive. We have trained three transformer models four times each with different learning rates, giving us 12 models total. Their predicted probabilities have been averaged to make the final decision. The 12-model ensemble has achieved a macro F1 of 0.8086, outperforming all individual models and securing 4th place in the shared task. Combining Tamil-specialized and multilingual transformer models has outperformed any single-architecture approach."
}