Abstract
Identifying offensive information from tweets is a vital language processing task. This task concentrated more on English and other foreign languages these days. In this shared task on Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages, in the First Workshop of Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages in EACL 2021, the aim is to identify offensive content from code mixed Dravidian Languages Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. Our team used language agnostic BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers) for sentence embedding and a Softmax classifier. The language-agnostic representation based classification helped obtain good performance for all the three languages, out of which results for the Malayalam language are good enough to obtain a third position among the participating teams.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.dravidianlangtech-1.32
- 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:
- 236–242
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.32
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sara Renjit and Sumam Mary Idicula. 2021. CUSATNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021:Language Agnostic Classification of Offensive Content in Tweets. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 236–242, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- CUSATNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021:Language Agnostic Classification of Offensive Content in Tweets (Renjit & Idicula, DravidianLangTech 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.32.pdf
- Data
- OLID