Detection of Religious Hate Speech During Elections in Karnataka

Msvpj Sathvik, Raj Sonani, Ravi Teja Potla


Abstract
We propose a novel dataset for detecting religious hate speech in the context of elections in Karnataka, with a particular focus on Kannada and Kannada-English code-mixed text. The data was collected during the Karnataka state elections and includes 3,000 labeled samples that reflect various forms of online discourse related to religion. This dataset aims to address the growing concern of religious intolerance and hate speech during election periods, it’s a dataset of multilingual, code-mixed language. To evaluate the effectiveness of this dataset, we benchmarked it using the latest state-of-the-art algorithms. We achieved accuracy of 78.61%.
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2025.dravidianlangtech-1.97
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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May
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2025
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Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
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10.18653/v1/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.97
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Msvpj Sathvik, Raj Sonani, and Ravi Teja Potla. 2025. Detection of Religious Hate Speech During Elections in Karnataka. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 562–566, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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