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Optimize_Prime@DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil

Abstract

AbstractThis paper tries to address the problem of abusive comment detection in low-resource indic languages. Abusive comments are statements that are offensive to a person or a group of people. These comments are targeted toward individuals belonging to specific ethnicities, genders, caste, race, sexuality, etc. Abusive Comment Detection is a significant problem, especially with the recent rise in social media users. This paper presents the approach used by our team — Optimize_Prime, in the ACL 2022 shared task “Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil.” This task detects and classifies YouTube comments in Tamil and Tamil-English Codemixed format into multiple categories. We have used three methods to optimize our results: Ensemble models, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Transformers. In the Tamil data, MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTA were our best performing models with a macro-averaged f1 score of 0.43. Furthermore, for the Code-mixed data, MuRIL and M-BERT provided sublime results, with a macro-averaged f1 score of 0.45.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Deep Learning and Machine Learning
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio

Authors

Shantanu Patankar , Omkar Gokhale , Onkar Litake , Aditya Mandke , Dipali Kadam

Topics

Machine Learning > Core Methods > Classification Deep Learning > Architectures > Transformers Deep Learning > Architectures > Neural Networks

Keywords

ensemble learning low-resource language recurrent neural network abusive comment detection
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