IDIAP Submission@LT-EDI-ACL2022 : Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Muskaan Singh, Petr Motlicek


Abstract
Social media platforms have been provoking masses of people. The individual comments affect a prevalent way of thinking by moving away from preoccupation with discrimination, loneliness, or influence in building confidence, support, and good qualities. This paper aims to identify hope in these social media posts. Hope significantly impacts the well-being of people, as suggested by health professionals. It reflects the belief to achieve an objective, discovers a new path, or become motivated to formulate pathways. In this paper we classify given a social media post, hope speech or not hope speech, using ensembled voting of BERT, ERNIE 2.0 and RoBERTa for English language with 0.54 macro F1-score (2st rank). For non-English languages Malayalam, Spanish and Tamil we utilized XLM RoBERTA with 0.50, 0.81, 0.3 macro F1 score (1st, 1st,3rd rank) respectively. For Kannada, we use Multilingual BERT with 0.32 F1 score(5th)position. We release our code-base here: https://github.com/Muskaan-Singh/Hate-Speech-detection.git.
Anthology ID:
2022.ltedi-1.54
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, B Bharathi, John P McCrae, Manel Zarrouk, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
Venue:
LTEDI
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
350–355
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.54
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.ltedi-1.54
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Cite (ACL):
Muskaan Singh and Petr Motlicek. 2022. IDIAP Submission@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 350–355, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
IDIAP Submission@LT-EDI-ACL2022 : Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Singh & Motlicek, LTEDI 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.54.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.54.mp4
Code
 muskaan-singh/hate-speech-detection
Data
HopeEDI