Hopeful NLP@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Finding Hope in YouTube Comment Section

Vasudev Awatramani


Abstract
The proliferation of Hate Speech and misinformation in social media is fast becoming a menace to society. In compliment, the dissemination of hate-diffusing, promising and anti-oppressive messages become a unique alternative. Unfortunately, due to its complex nature as well as the relatively limited manifestation in comparison to hostile and neutral content, the identification of Hope Speech becomes a challenge. This work revolves around the detection of Hope Speech in Youtube comments, for the Shared Task on Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. We achieve an f-score of 0.93, ranking 1st on the leaderboard for English comments.
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2021.ltedi-1.24
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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April
Year:
2021
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Kyiv
Editors:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, John P. McCrae, Manel Zarrouk, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
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LTEDI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
164–167
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.ltedi-1.24
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Cite (ACL):
Vasudev Awatramani. 2021. Hopeful NLP@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Finding Hope in YouTube Comment Section. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 164–167, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hopeful NLP@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Finding Hope in YouTube Comment Section (Awatramani, LTEDI 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.ltedi-1.24.pdf
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