VEL@LT-EDI: Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Code-Mixed Spanish Social Media Comments
Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy, Kogilavani S V, Subalalitha Cn, Ruba Priyadharshini, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi
Abstract
Our research aims to address the task of detecting homophobia and transphobia in social media code-mixed comments written in Spanish. Code-mixed text in social media often violates strict grammar rules and incorporates non-native scripts, posing challenges for identification. To tackle this problem, we perform pre-processing by removing unnecessary content and establishing a baseline for detecting homophobia and transphobia. Furthermore, we explore the effectiveness of various traditional machine-learning models with feature extraction and pre-trained transformer model techniques. Our best configurations achieve macro F1 scores of 0.84 on the test set and 0.82 on the development set for Spanish, demonstrating promising results in detecting instances of homophobia and transphobia in code-mixed comments.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.ltedi-1.35
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Varna, Bulgaria
- Editors:
- Bharathi R. Chakravarthi, B. Bharathi, Joephine Griffith, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
- Venues:
- LTEDI | WS
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- Publisher:
- INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
- Note:
- Pages:
- 233–238
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.ltedi-1.35
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy, Kogilavani S V, Subalalitha Cn, Ruba Priyadharshini, and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi. 2023. VEL@LT-EDI: Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Code-Mixed Spanish Social Media Comments. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 233–238, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
- Cite (Informal):
- VEL@LT-EDI: Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Code-Mixed Spanish Social Media Comments (Kumaresan et al., LTEDI-WS 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/2023.ltedi-1.35.pdf