Overview of The Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Thenmozhi Durairaj, John McCrae, Paul Buitelaar, Prasanna Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy


Abstract
Homophobia and Transphobia Detection is the task of identifying homophobia, transphobia, and non-anti-LGBT+ content from the given corpus. Homophobia and transphobia are both toxic languages directed at LGBTQ+ individuals that are described as hate speech. This paper summarizes our findings on the “Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in social media comments” shared task held at LT-EDI 2022 - ACL 2022 1. This shared taskfocused on three sub-tasks for Tamil, English, and Tamil-English (code-mixed) languages. It received 10 systems for Tamil, 13 systems for English, and 11 systems for Tamil-English. The best systems for Tamil, English, and Tamil-English scored 0.570, 0.870, and 0.610, respectively, on average macro F1-score.
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2022.ltedi-1.57
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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May
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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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369–377
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.57
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10.18653/v1/2022.ltedi-1.57
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Thenmozhi Durairaj, John McCrae, Paul Buitelaar, Prasanna Kumaresan, and Rahul Ponnusamy. 2022. Overview of The Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 369–377, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of The Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments (Chakravarthi et al., LTEDI 2022)
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