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Memes are commonly used for communication on social media platforms, and some of them can propagate misogynistic content, spreading harmful messages. Detecting such misogynistic memes has become a significant challenge, especially for low-resource languages like Tamil and Malayalam, due to their complex linguistic structures. To tackle this issue, a shared task on detecting misogynistic memes was organized at DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. This paper proposes a multimodal deep learning approach for detecting misogynistic memes in Tamil and Malayalam. The proposed model combines fine-tuned ResNet18 for visual feature extraction and indicBERT for analyzing textual content. The fused model was applied to the test dataset, achieving macro F1 scores of 76.32% for Tamil and 80.35% for Malayalam. Our approach led to 7^th and 12^th positions for Tamil and Malayalam, respectively.

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CUET_NetworkSociety@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Multimodal Framework to Detect Misogyny Meme in Dravidian Languages

misogynistic memes

multimodal deep learning

low-resource language

bert

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Social media has transformed communication, but it has opened new ways for women to be abused. Because of complex morphology, large vocabulary, and frequent code-mixing of Tamil and Malayalam, it might be especially challenging to identify discriminatory text in linguistically diverse settings. Because traditional moderation systems frequently miss these linguistic subtleties, gendered abuse in many forms—from outright threats to character insults and body shaming—continues. In addition to examining the sociocultural characteristics of this type of harassment on social media, this study compares the effectiveness of several Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, such as FastText, transformer-based architectures, and BiLSTM. Our results show that FastText achieved an macro f1 score of 0.74 on the Tamil dataset and 0.64 on the Malayalam dataset, outperforming the Transformer model which achieved a macro f1 score of 0.62 and BiLSTM achieved 0.57. By addressing the limitations of existing moderation techniques, this research underscores the urgent need for language-specific AI solutions to foster safer digital spaces for women.

Cyber Protectors@DravidianLangTech 2025: Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media using FastText

Social media has become an established medium of public communication and opinions on every aspect of life, but especially politics. This has resulted in a growing need for tools that can process the large amount of unstructured data that is produced on these platforms providing actionable insights in domains such as social trends and political opinion. Low-resource languages like Tamil present challenges due to limited tools and annotated data, highlighting the need for NLP focus on understudied languages. To address this, a shared task has been organized by DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 for political sentiment analysis for low-resource languages, with a specific focus on Tamil. In this task, we have explored several machine learning methods such as SVM, AdaBoost, GB, deep learning methods including CNN, LSTM, GRU BiLSTM, and the ensemble of different deep learning models, and transformer-based methods including mBERT, T5, XLM-R. The mBERT model performed best by achieving a macro F1 score of 0.2178 and placing our team 22^nd in the rank list.

CUET_NetworkSociety@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Transformer-Driven Approach to Political Sentiment Analysis of Tamil X (Twitter) Comments

The growing use of social communication platforms has seen women facing higher degrees of online violence than ever before. This paper presents how a deep learning abuse detection system can be applied to inappropriate text directed at women on social media. Because of the diversity of languages and the casual nature of online communication, coupled with the cultural diversity around the world, the detection of such content is often severely lacking. This research utilized Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for abuse text detection in Malayalam and Tamil languages. This modeldelivers 0.75, a high F1 score for Malayalam, and for Tamil, 0.72, achieving the desired balance of identifying abuse and non-abusive content and achieving high-performance rates. The designed model, based on the dataset provided in DravidianLangTech@NAACL2025 (shared task) comprising code-mixed abusive and nonabusive social media posts in Malayalam and Tamil, showcases a high propensity for detecting accuracy and indicates the likely success of deep learning-based models for abuse text detection in resource-constrained languages.

DLTCNITPY@DravidianLangTech 2025 Abusive Code-mixed Text Detection System Targeting Women for Tamil and Malayalam Languages using Deep Learning Technique

Detecting AI-generated product reviews is a critical challenge in natural language processing (NLP), particularly for low-resource languages like Malayalam. In this study, we propose a large language model (LLM)-based approach to identify AI-generated reviews in Dravidian languages, focusing on the product review domain. We systematically evaluated multiple LLMs on a dedicated Malayalam dataset to assess their effectiveness in distinguishing between human-written and AI-generated reviews. Our experiments demonstrate that the Gemma-2B model outperforms other models, achieving a macro F1-score of 89.99%. Our approach secured 5^{th} place in the DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 shared task for Malayalam, highlighting the potential of LLMs in tackling the challenges of AI-generated review detection in low-resource languages. Our findings highlight the potential of LLMs in detecting AI-generated content in underrepresented languages, contributing to advancements in Dravidian language processing and the broader field of AI-generated content identification.

CUET_NLP_FiniteInfinity@DravidianLangTech 2025: Exploring Large Language Models for AI-Generated Product Review Classification in Malayalam

The shared task on Detecting AI-generated Product Reviews in Dravidian Languages is aimed at addressing the growing concern of AI-generated product reviews, specifically in Malayalam and Tamil. As AI tools become more advanced, the ability to distinguish between human-written and AI-generated content has become increasingly crucial, especially in the domain of online reviews where authenticity is essential for consumer decision-making. In our approach, we used the ALBERT, IndicBERT, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) models to classify the reviews. The results of our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods in detecting AI-generated content.

AnalysisArchitects@DravidianLangTech 2025: BERT Based Approach For Detecting AI Generated Product Reviews In Dravidian Languages

Sentiment analysis is recognized as an important area in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims at understanding and classifying opinions or emotions in text. In the political field, public sentiment is analyzed to gain insight into opinions, address issues, and shape better policies. Social media platforms like Twitter (now X) are widely used to express thoughts and have become a valuable source of real-time political discussions. In this paper, the shared task of Political Multiclass Sentiment Analysis of Tamil tweets is examined, where the objective is to classify tweets into specific sentiment categories. The proposed approach is explained, which involves preprocessing Tamil text, extracting useful features, and applying machine learning and deep learning models for classification. The effectiveness of the methods is demonstrated through experimental results and the challenges encountered while working on the analysis of Tamil political sentiment are discussed.

AnalysisArchitects@DravidianLangTech 2025: Machine Learning Approach to Political Multiclass Sentiment Analysis of Tamil

This study focuses on detecting misogynistic content in memes under the title Misogynistic. Meme Detection Using Multimodal Deep Learning. Through an analysis of both textual and visual components of memes, specifically in Tamil, the study seeks to detect misogynistic rhetoric directed towards women. Preprocessing and vectorizing text data using methods like TF-IDF, GloVe, Word2Vec, and transformer-based embeddings like BERT are all part of the textual analysis process. Deep learning models like ResNet and EfficientNet are used to extract significant image attributes for the visual component. To improve classification performance, these characteristics are then combined in a multimodal framework employing hybrid architectures such as CNN-LSTM, GRU-EfficientNet, and ResNet-BERT. The classification of memes as misogynistic or non-misogynistic is done using sophisticated machine learning and deep learning ap proaches. Model performance is evaluated using metrics like Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and Macro Average F1-Score. This study shows how multimodal deep learning can effectively detect and counteract negative narratives about women in digital media by combining natural language processing with image classification.

TEAM_STRIKERS@DravidianLangTech2025: Misogyny Meme Detection in Tamil Using Multimodal Deep Learning

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media platforms necessitates robust detection mechanisms, particularly for languages with limited computational resources. This paper presents our system for the DravidianLangTech 2025 shared task on Fake News Detection in Malayalam YouTube comments, addressing both binary and multiclass classification challenges. We propose a Multi-Pooling Feature Fusion (MPFF) architecture that leverages [CLS] + Mean + Max pooling strategy with transformer models. Our system demonstrates strong performance across both tasks, achieving a macro-averaged F1 score of 0.874, ranking 6th in binary classification, and 0.628, securing 1st position in multiclass classification. Experimental results show that our MPFF approach with XLM-RoBERTa significantly outperforms traditional machine learning and deep learning baselines, particularly excelling in the more challenging multiclass scenario. These findings highlight the effectiveness of our methodology in capturing nuanced linguistic features for fake news detection in Malayalam, contributing to the advancement of automated verification systems for Dravidian languages.

KCRL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multi-Pooling Feature Fusion with XLM-RoBERTa for Malayalam Fake News Detection and Classification

The proliferation of social media platforms has resulted in increased instances of online abuse, particularly targeting marginalized groups such as women. This study focuses on the classification of abusive comments in Tamil and Malayalam, two Dravidian languages widely spoken in South India. Leveraging a multilingual BERT model, this paper provides an effective approach for detecting and categorizing abusive and non-abusive text. Using labeled datasets comprising social media comments, our model demonstrates its ability to identify targeted abuse with promising accuracy. This paper outlines the dataset preparation, model architecture, training methodology, and the evaluation of results, providing a foundation for combating online abuse in low-resource languages.The methodology is unique for its integration of multilingual BERT and weighted loss functions to address class imbalance, showcasing a pathway for effective abuse detection in other underrepresented languages. The BERT model achieved an F1-score of 0.6519 for Tamil and 0.6601 for Malayalam. The code
for this work is available on github Abusive-Text-targeting-women

SSN_IT_NLP@DravidianLangTech 2025: Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text targeting Women on Social Media

Recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate product reviews
that are indistinguishable from those written by humans. To address these concerns, this study proposes an effective AI detector model capable of differentiating between AI-generated and human-written product reviews. Our methodology incorporates various machine learning techniques, including Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, SVM, and deep learning approaches based on the BERT architecture.Our findings reveal that BERT outperforms other models in detecting AI-generated content in both Tamil product reviews and Malayalam product reviews.

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