SSNCSE NLP@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Transformer based approach for detection of abusive comment for Tamil language

Bharathi B, Josephine Varsha


Abstract
Social media platforms along with many other public forums on the Internet have shown a significant rise in the cases of abusive behavior such as Misogynism, Misandry, Homophobia, and Cyberbullying. To tackle these concerns, technologies are being developed and applied, as it is a tedious and time-consuming task to identify, report and block these offenders. Our task was to automate the process of identifying abusive comments and classify them into appropriate categories. The datasets provided by the DravidianLangTech@ACL2022 organizers were a code-mixed form of Tamil text. We trained the datasets using pre-trained transformer models such as BERT,m-BERT, and XLNET and achieved a weighted average of F1 scores of 0.96 for Tamil-English code mixed text and 0.59 for Tamil text.
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2022.dravidianlangtech-1.25
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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May
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2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly, Sinnathamby Mahesan
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DravidianLangTech
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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158–164
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.dravidianlangtech-1.25
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.dravidianlangtech-1.25
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Bharathi B and Josephine Varsha. 2022. SSNCSE NLP@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Transformer based approach for detection of abusive comment for Tamil language. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 158–164, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SSNCSE NLP@TamilNLP-ACL2022: Transformer based approach for detection of abusive comment for Tamil language (B & Varsha, DravidianLangTech 2022)
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