Suresh Venkatasubramanian


2025

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Navigating Dialectal Bias and Ethical Complexities in Levantine Arabic Hate Speech Detection
Ahmed Haj Ahmed | Rui-Jie Yew | Xerxes Minocher | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)

Social media platforms have become central to global communication, yet they also facilitate the spread of hate speech. For underrepresented dialects like Levantine Arabic, detecting hate speech presents unique cultural, ethical, and linguistic challenges. This paper explores the complex sociopolitical and linguistic landscape of Levantine Arabic and critically examines the limitations of current datasets used in hate speech detection. We highlight the scarcity of publicly available, diverse datasets and analyze the consequences of dialectal bias within existing resources. By emphasizing the need for culturally and contextually informed natural language processing (NLP) tools, we advocate for a more nuanced and inclusive approach to hate speech detection in the Arab world.

2010

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Domain Adaptation meets Active Learning
Piyush Rai | Avishek Saha | Hal Daumé | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Active Learning for Natural Language Processing

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Sketching Techniques for Large Scale NLP
Amit Goyal | Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi | Hal Daumé III | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Sixth Web as Corpus Workshop

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Sketch Techniques for Scaling Distributional Similarity to the Web
Amit Goyal | Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi | Hal Daumé III | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics

2009

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Streaming for large scale NLP: Language Modeling
Amit Goyal | Hal Daumé III | Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics