IIITT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transfer Learning for Offensive Language Detection in Dravidian Languages

Konthala Yasaswini, Karthik Puranik, Adeep Hande, Ruba Priyadharshini, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi


Abstract
This paper demonstrates our work for the shared task on Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages-EACL 2021. Offensive language detection in the various social media platforms was identified previously. But with the increase in diversity of users, there is a need to identify the offensive language in multilingual posts that are largely code-mixed or written in a non-native script. We approach this challenge with various transfer learning-based models to classify a given post or comment in Dravidian languages (Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada) into 6 categories. The source codes for our systems are published.
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2021.dravidianlangtech-1.25
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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April
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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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DravidianLangTech
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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187–194
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.25
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Cite (ACL):
Konthala Yasaswini, Karthik Puranik, Adeep Hande, Ruba Priyadharshini, Sajeetha Thavareesan, and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi. 2021. IIITT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transfer Learning for Offensive Language Detection in Dravidian Languages. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 187–194, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
IIITT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transfer Learning for Offensive Language Detection in Dravidian Languages (Yasaswini et al., DravidianLangTech 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.25.pdf
Software:
 2021.dravidianlangtech-1.25.Software.zip
Code
 adeeph/dravidianlangtech-old