DLRG-DravidianLangTech@EACL2024 : Combating Hate Speech in Telugu Code-mixed Text on Social Media

Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, Saptharishee M, Hareesh S, Gabriel R, Varsini Sr


Abstract
Detecting hate speech in code-mixed language is vital for a secure online space, curbing harmful content, promoting inclusive communication, and safeguarding users from discrimination. Despite the linguistic complexities of code-mixed languages, this study explores diverse pre-processing methods. It finds that the Transliteration method excels in handling linguistic variations. The research comprehensively investigates machine learning and deep learning approaches, namely Logistic Regression and Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) models. These models achieved F1 scores of 0.68 and 0.70, respectively, contributing to ongoing efforts to combat hate speech in code-mixed languages and offering valuable insights for future research in this critical domain.
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2024.dravidianlangtech-1.23
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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March
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2024
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St. Julian's, Malta
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Rajeswari Nadarajan, Manikandan Ravikiran
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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140–145
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Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, Saptharishee M, Hareesh S, Gabriel R, and Varsini Sr. 2024. DLRG-DravidianLangTech@EACL2024 : Combating Hate Speech in Telugu Code-mixed Text on Social Media. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 140–145, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DLRG-DravidianLangTech@EACL2024 : Combating Hate Speech in Telugu Code-mixed Text on Social Media (Rajalakshmi et al., DravidianLangTech-WS 2024)
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