IIT Dhanbad @LT-EDI-ACL2022- Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Vishesh Gupta, Ritesh Kumar, Rajendra Pamula


Abstract
Hope is considered significant for the wellbeing,recuperation and restoration of humanlife by health professionals. Hope speech reflectsthe belief that one can discover pathwaysto their desired objectives and become rousedto utilise those pathways. Hope speech offerssupport, reassurance, suggestions, inspirationand insight. Hate speech is a prevalent practicethat society has to struggle with everyday. The freedom of speech and ease of anonymitygranted by social media has also resulted inincitement to hatred. In this paper, we workto identify and promote positive and supportivecontent on these platforms. We work withseveral machine learning models to classify socialmedia comments as hope speech or nonhopespeech in English. This paper portraysour work for the Shared Task on Hope SpeechDetection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusionat LT-EDI-ACL 2022.
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2022.ltedi-1.32
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, B Bharathi, 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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229–233
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.32
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.ltedi-1.32
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Vishesh Gupta, Ritesh Kumar, and Rajendra Pamula. 2022. IIT Dhanbad @LT-EDI-ACL2022- Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 229–233, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IIT Dhanbad @LT-EDI-ACL2022- Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (Gupta et al., LTEDI 2022)
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