Unpacking Faux-Hate: Addressing Faux-Hate Detection and Severity Prediction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Text with HingRoBERTa and Class Weighting Techniques

Ashweta A. Fondekar, Milind M. Shivolkar, Jyoti D. Pawar


Abstract
The proliferation of hate speech and fake narra-tives on social media poses significant societalchallenges, especially in multilingual and code-mixed contexts. This paper presents our systemsubmitted to the ICON 2024 shared task onDecoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hate-ful Stories (Faux-Hate). We tackle the prob-lem of Faux-Hate Detection, which involvesdetecting fake narratives and hate speech incode-mixed Hinglish text. Leveraging Hin-gRoBERTa, a pre-trained transformer modelfine-tuned on Hinglish datasets, we addresstwo sub-tasks: Binary Faux-Hate Detection andTarget and Severity Prediction. Through the in-troduction of class weighting techniques andthe optimization of a multi-task learning ap-proach, we demonstrate improved performancein identifying hate and fake speech, as well asin classifying their target and severity. Thisresearch contributes to a scalable and efficientframework for addressing complex real-worldtext processing challenges.
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2024.icon-fauxhate.2
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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate)
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December
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2024
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AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India
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Shankar Biradar, Kasu Sai Kartheek Reddy, Sunil Saumya, Md. Shad Akhtar
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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6–11
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Ashweta A. Fondekar, Milind M. Shivolkar, and Jyoti D. Pawar. 2024. Unpacking Faux-Hate: Addressing Faux-Hate Detection and Severity Prediction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Text with HingRoBERTa and Class Weighting Techniques. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate), pages 6–11, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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Unpacking Faux-Hate: Addressing Faux-Hate Detection and Severity Prediction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Text with HingRoBERTa and Class Weighting Techniques (A. Fondekar et al., ICON 2024)
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