Overview of Third Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Prasanna Kumaresan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Paul Buitelaar, Asha Hegde, Hosahalli Shashirekha, Saranya Rajiakodi, Miguel Ángel García, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, José García-Díaz, Rafael Valencia-García, Kishore Ponnusamy, Poorvi Shetty, Daniel García-Baena


Abstract
This paper provides a comprehensive summary of the “Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments” shared task, which was held at the LT-EDI@EACL 2024. The objective of this task was to develop systems capable of identifying instances of homophobia and transphobia within social media comments. This challenge was extended across ten languages: English, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish, and Tulu. Each comment in the dataset was annotated into three categories. The shared task attracted significant interest, with over 60 teams participating through the CodaLab platform. The submission of prediction from the participants was evaluated with the macro F1 score.
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2024.ltedi-1.11
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
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March
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2024
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St. Julian's, Malta
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, Paul Buitelaar, Thenmozhi Durairaj, György Kovács, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
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LTEDI | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Prasanna Kumaresan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Paul Buitelaar, Asha Hegde, Hosahalli Shashirekha, Saranya Rajiakodi, Miguel Ángel García, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, José García-Díaz, Rafael Valencia-García, Kishore Ponnusamy, Poorvi Shetty, and Daniel García-Baena. 2024. Overview of Third Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pages 124–132, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of Third Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments (Chakravarthi et al., LTEDI-WS 2024)
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