MasonTigers@LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach Towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments

Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Md Nishat Raihan, Al Emran


Abstract
In this paper, we describe our approaches and results for Task 2 of the LT-EDI 2024 Workshop, aimed at detecting homophobia and/or transphobia across ten languages. Our methodologies include monolingual transformers and ensemble methods, capitalizing on the strengths of each to enhance the performance of the models. The ensemble models worked well, placing our team, MasonTigers, in the top five for eight of the ten languages, as measured by the macro F1 score. Our work emphasizes the efficacy of ensemble methods in multilingual scenarios, addressing the complexities of language-specific tasks.
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2024.ltedi-1.17
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
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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, Bharathi B, Paul Buitelaar, Thenmozhi Durairaj, György Kovács, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
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LTEDI | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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164–172
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Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Md Nishat Raihan, and Al Emran. 2024. MasonTigers@LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach Towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pages 164–172, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MasonTigers@LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach Towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments (Goswami et al., LTEDI-WS 2024)
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