IIITK@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification and Meme Classification in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
Nikhil Ghanghor, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi
Abstract
This paper describes the IIITK team’s submissions to the offensive language identification, and troll memes classification shared tasks for Dravidian languages at DravidianLangTech 2021 workshop@EACL 2021. Our best configuration for Tamil troll meme classification achieved 0.55 weighted average F1 score, and for offensive language identification, our system achieved weighted F1 scores of 0.75 for Tamil, 0.95 for Malayalam, and 0.71 for Kannada. Our rank on Tamil troll meme classification is 2, and offensive language identification in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada are 3, 3 and 4 respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.dravidianlangtech-1.30
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Kyiv
- Editors:
- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly
- Venue:
- DravidianLangTech
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 222–229
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.30
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nikhil Ghanghor, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Ruba Priyadharshini, and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi. 2021. IIITK@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification and Meme Classification in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 222–229, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- IIITK@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification and Meme Classification in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada (Ghanghor et al., DravidianLangTech 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.30.pdf
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