Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Navya Jose, Anand Kumar M, Thomas Mandl, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Hariharan R L, John P. McCrae, Elizabeth Sherly


Abstract
Detecting offensive language in social media in local languages is critical for moderating user-generated content. Thus, the field of offensive language identification in under-resourced Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages are essential. As the user-generated content is more code-mixed and not well studied for under-resourced languages, it is imperative to create resources and conduct benchmarking studies to encourage research in under-resourced Dravidian languages. We created a shared task on offensive language detection in Dravidian languages. We summarize here the dataset for this challenge which are openly available at https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/27654, and present an overview of the methods and the results of the competing systems.
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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2021
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Kyiv
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Navya Jose, Anand Kumar M, Thomas Mandl, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Hariharan R L, John P. McCrae, and Elizabeth Sherly. 2021. Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 133–145, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada (Chakravarthi et al., DravidianLangTech 2021)
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