JUNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Langauges

Avishek Garain, Atanu Mandal, Sudip Kumar Naskar


Abstract
Offensive language identification has been an active area of research in natural language processing. With the emergence of multiple social media platforms offensive language identification has emerged as a need of the hour. Traditional offensive language identification models fail to deliver acceptable results as social media contents are largely in multilingual and are code-mixed in nature. This paper tries to resolve this problem by using IndicBERT and BERT architectures, to facilitate identification of offensive languages for Kannada-English, Malayalam-English, and Tamil-English code-mixed language pairs extracted from social media. The presented approach when evaluated on the test corpus provided precision, recall, and F1 score for language pair Kannada-English as 0.62, 0.71, and 0.66, respectively, for language pair Malayalam-English as 0.77, 0.43, and 0.53, respectively, and for Tamil-English as 0.71, 0.74, and 0.72, respectively.
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2021.dravidianlangtech-1.46
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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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319–322
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Avishek Garain, Atanu Mandal, and Sudip Kumar Naskar. 2021. JUNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Langauges. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 319–322, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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