Isnat Mehrin Sami


2026

This paper describes the system that our Still-Loading team designed to run the Telugu Prompt-Style Recovery shared task at DravidianLangTech@ACL 2026. The purpose of the given task is categorizing Telugu transcript passages as belonging to one of 9 communicative styles: Formal, Informal, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Humorous, Serious, Inspiring, Authoritative, and Persuasive. We compared several multilingual Transformer-based models, i.e. MuRIL, XLM-RoBERTa-Large, mBERT, and IndicBERTv2. We chose a "Turbo Sandwich" preprocessing strategy which helps to give more emphasis to lexical deltas, in addition to Focal Loss. Our system based on the MuRIL was rated at the 7th place in the official leaderboard with a Macro-F1 rating of 0.1703. The source code to reproduce our experiments is publicly available on Still-Loading-Prompt-Recovery-for-LLM-in-Telugu (https://github.com/Priyontee1713/Still-Loading-Prompt-Recovery-for-LLM-in-Telugu).