nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 1: Two-Step Classification for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla - Leveraging Back-Translation and Multilinguality

Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri


Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the nlpBDpatriots entry to the shared task on Violence Inciting Text Detection (VITD) organized as part of the first workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP) co-located with EMNLP. The aim of this task is to identify and classify the violent threats, that provoke further unlawful violent acts. Our best-performing approach for the task is two-step classification using back translation and multilinguality which ranked 6th out of 27 teams with a macro F1 score of 0.74.
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2023.banglalp-1.20
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023)
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Firoj Alam, Sudipta Kar, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Farig Sadeque, Ruhul Amin
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BanglaLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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179–184
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.banglalp-1.20
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.banglalp-1.20
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Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, and Marcos Zampieri. 2023. nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 1: Two-Step Classification for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla - Leveraging Back-Translation and Multilinguality. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023), pages 179–184, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 1: Two-Step Classification for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla - Leveraging Back-Translation and Multilinguality (Raihan et al., BanglaLP 2023)
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