Lemlem Kawo

Also published as: Lemlem Eyob Kawo


2025

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CIC-NLP@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detecting AI-generated Product Reviews in Dravidian Languages
Tewodros Achamaleh | Tolulope Olalekan Abiola | Lemlem Eyob Kawo | Mikiyas Mebraihtu | Grigori Sidorov
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages

AI-generated text now matches human writing so well that telling them apart is very difficult. Our CIC-NLP team submits results for the DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 shared task to reveal AI-generated product reviews in Dravidian languages. We performed a binary classification task with XLM-RoBERTa-Base using the DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 datasets offered by the event organizers. Through training the model correctly, our tests could tell between human and AI-generated reviews with scores of 0.96 for Tamil and 0.88 for Malayalam in the evaluation test set. This paper presents detailed information about preprocessing, model architecture, hyperparameter fine-tuning settings, the experimental process, and the results. The source code is available on GitHub1.

2024

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Tewodros@DravidianLangTech 2024: Hate Speech Recognition in Telugu Codemixed Text
Tewodros Achamaleh | Lemlem Kawo | Ildar Batyrshini | Grigori Sidorov
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages

This study goes into our team’s active participation in the Hate and Offensive Language Detection in Telugu Codemixed Text (HOLDTelugu) shared task, which is an essential component of the DravidianLangTech@EACL 2024 workshop. The ultimate goal of this collaborative work is to push the bounds of hate speech recognition, especially tackling the issues given by codemixed text in Telugu, where English blends smoothly. Our inquiry offers a complete evaluation of the task’s aims, the technique used, and the precise achievements obtained by our team, providing a full insight into our contributions to this crucial linguistic and technical undertaking.