Md. Abtahee Kabir
2026
Team Oryu@DravidianLangTech 2026: A Multilingual Transformer Approach for Hope Speech Detection in Code-Mixed Tulu
Joyeta Barua Moni | Noore Tamanna Orny | Md. Abtahee Kabir | Hasan Murad
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Joyeta Barua Moni | Noore Tamanna Orny | Md. Abtahee Kabir | Hasan Murad
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Hope speech detection appears to have an essential role to play in fostering positive and inclusive communication on social media, especially in low-resource multilingual settings. This paper describes the system submitted by Team Oryu for Task 1: Coarse-Grained Hope Tone Classification in Code-Mixed Tulu. The task involves classifying comments in social media texts into one of the four classes: Encouraging, Discouraging, Uninvolved, and Blended Tone. The texts in this task show heavy code-mixing between Tulu, English, and Kannada. In order to overcome this challenge, we employed a fine-tuned multilingual transformer model, code-mixed text processing, data augmentation, and class-weighted loss to handle class imbalance. Our proposed system achieved a Macro F1-score of 63%, securing 3rd position on the shared task. The results demonstrate the efficacy of multilingual transformer models in emotionally nuanced classification in code-mixed environments while underscoring the difficulties in capturing blended emotional tones.