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Human communication is inherently multimodal and asynchronous. Analyzing human emotions and sentiment is an emerging field of artificial intelligence. We are witnessing an increasing amount of multimodal content in local languages on social…

With the growth of social media platform influence, the effect of their misuse becomes more and more impactful. The importance of automatic detection of threatening and abusive language can not be overestimated. However, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Maaz Amjad , Alisa Zhila , Grigori Sidorov , Andrey Labunets , Sabur Butta , Hamza Imam Amjad , Oxana Vitman , Alexander Gelbukh

This document describes our approach to building an Offensive Language Classifier. More specifically, the OffensEval 2019 competition required us to build three classifiers with slightly different goals: - Offensive language identification:…

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The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cyber-bullying, is a global phenomenon. This has sparked interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) communities, motivating the…

Language identification is used as the first step in many data collection and crawling efforts because it allows us to sort online text into language-specific buckets. However, many modern languages, such as Konkani, Kashmiri, Punjabi etc.,…

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Identifying offensive language is essential for maintaining safety and sustainability in the social media era. Though large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated encouraging potential in social media analytics, they lack thorough…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jianfei He , Lilin Wang , Jiaying Wang , Zhenyu Liu , Hongbin Na , Zimu Wang , Wei Wang , Qi Chen

Social Media platforms have been seeing adoption and growth in their usage over time. This growth has been further accelerated with the lockdown in the past year when people's interaction, conversation, and expression were limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ekagra Ranjan , Naman Poddar

Quite often, words from one language are adopted within a different language without translation; these words appear in transliterated form in text written in the latter language. This phenomenon is particularly widespread within Indian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Sridhama Prakhya , Deepak P

This paper reports the findings of the ICON 2023 on Gendered Abuse Detection in Indic Languages. The shared task deals with the detection of gendered abuse in online text. The shared task was conducted as a part of ICON 2023, based on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Aatman Vaidya , Arnav Arora , Aditya Joshi , Tarunima Prabhakar

This 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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Shantanu Patankar , Omkar Gokhale , Onkar Litake , Aditya Mandke , Dipali Kadam

The widespread presence of hateful languages on social media has resulted in adverse effects on societal well-being. As a result, addressing this issue with high priority has become very important. Hate speech or offensive languages exist…

This paper presents six document classification models using the latest transformer encoders and a high-performing ensemble model for a task of offensive language identification in social media. For the individual models, deep transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xiangjue Dong , Jinho D. Choi

This paper describes the Duluth systems that participated in SemEval--2020 Task 12, Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval--2020). We participated in the three English language tasks. Our systems provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Ted Pedersen

Tulu, a low-resource Dravidian language predominantly spoken in southern India, has limited computational resources despite its growing digital presence. This study presents the first benchmark dataset for Offensive Language Identification…

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Code-mixing(CM) is a frequently observed phenomenon that uses multiple languages in an utterance or sentence. CM is mostly practiced on various social media platforms and in informal conversations. Sentiment analysis (SA) is a fundamental…

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Tamil is a Dravidian language that is commonly used and spoken in the southern part of Asia. In the era of social media, memes have been a fun moment in the day-to-day life of people. Here, we try to analyze the true meaning of Tamil memes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Siddhanth U Hegde , Adeep Hande , Ruba Priyadharshini , Sajeetha Thavareesan , Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

Social media platforms often act as breeding grounds for various forms of trolling or malicious content targeting users or communities. One way of trolling users is by creating memes, which in most cases unites an image with a short piece…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Mithun Das , Somnath Banerjee , Animesh Mukherjee

This paper describes Galileo's performance in SemEval-2020 Task 12 on detecting and categorizing offensive language in social media. For Offensive Language Identification, we proposed a multi-lingual method using Pre-trained Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Shuohuan Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Xuan Ouyang , Yu Sun

In recent years social media has become an increasingly popular tool for communication. People use it to share their ideas, exchange information, and discuss thoughts. Given its prevalence and widespread reach, social media must remain a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pranshu Rastogi , Madhav Mathur , Ramaneswaran S , Kshitij Mohan

Toxic content is one of the most critical issues for social media platforms today. India alone had 518 million social media users in 2020. In order to provide a good experience to content creators and their audience, it is crucial to flag…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Manan Jhaveri , Devanshu Ramaiya , Harveen Singh Chadha