@inproceedings{k-b-2025-ssncse,
    title = "{SSNCSE}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in {D}ravidian Languages",
    author = "K, Sreeja  and
      B, Bharathi",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Sherly, Elizabeth  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Cn, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.17/",
    pages = "98--102",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-228-2",
    abstract = "Hate speech detection is a serious challenge due to the different digital media communication, particularly in low-resource languages. This research focuses on the problem of multimodal hate speech detection by incorporating both textual and audio modalities. In the context of social media platforms, hate speech is conveyed not only through text but also through audios, which may further amplify harmful content. In order to manage the issue, we provide a multiclass classification model that influences both text and audio features to detect and categorize hate speech in low-resource languages. The model uses machine learning models for text analysis and audio processing, allowing it to efficiently capture the complex relationships between the two modalities. Class weight mechanism involves avoiding overfitting. The prediction has been finalized using the majority fusion technique. Performance is measured using a macro average F1 score metric. Three languages{---}Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu{---}have the optimal F1-scores, which are 0.59, 0.52, and 0.33."
}