@inproceedings{zaman-etal-2026-cuet,
    title = "{CUET}{\_}{SYNTHETICA}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2026: Multilingual Transformer Based Hope Speech Detection for Coarse and Fine-Grained Classification in {T}ulu",
    author = "Zaman, Sumaiya  and
      Rishta, Miftahul Jannat  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-1.30/",
    pages = "217--221",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-401-9",
    abstract = "Hope speech has played a vital role in online communities, yet most NLP work has focused on English and a few high-resource languages, leaving code-mixed varieties like Tulu largely unexplored. In the Shared Task on Hope Speech Detection in Code-Mixed Tulu at DravidianLangTech@ACL 2026, we have tackled two subtasks: (i) coarse-grained classification into Encouraging, Discouraging, Uninvolved and Blended categories (Task 1) and (ii) fine-grained classification into Optimistic, Realistic, Inspiring, Fading and Hopelessness (Task 2).We have fine-tuned three multilingual transformer encoders XLM-RoBERTa-base, MuRIL and mBERT on the official training splits. In Task 1, a three-way soft-voting ensemble of all three models has yielded the best performance with a macro F1 of 0.58, securing 1st place. In Task 2, XLM-RoBERTa-base alone has outperformed both MuRIL and mBERT, achieving a macro F1 of 0.42 and also securing 1st place."
}