Incepto@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detecting Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on YouTube

AbstractThis study introduces a novel multilingualmodel designed to effectively address the challenges of detecting abusive content in low resource, code-mixed languages, where limiteddata availability and the interplay of mixed languages, leading to complex linguistic phenomena, create significant hurdles in developingrobust machine learning models. By leveraging transfer learning techniques and employingmulti-head attention mechanisms, our modeldemonstrates impressive performance in detecting abusive content in both Tamil and Malayalam datasets. On the Tamil dataset, our teamachieved a macro F1 score of 0.7864, whilefor the Malayalam dataset, a macro F1 score of0.7058 was attained. These results highlight theeffectiveness of our multilingual approach, delivering strong performance in Tamil and competitive results in Malayalam.