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Social Media platforms have grown their reach worldwide, but abusive language still remains a significant challenge in the social media framework. Based on this shared task, &quot;Abusive Comment detection in Tamil@DravidianLangTech-ACL 2022&quot;, we present an exploration of different techniques used to tackle and increase the accuracy of our models using data augmentation in NLP. We also show the results of these techniques.

ACL 2022

Effects of Data Augmentation on Indic-Transformer based classifier for Abusive Comments Detection in Tamil

abusive comment detection

low-resource languages

tamil

natural language processing

data augmentation

transformers

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Social Media platforms have grown their reach worldwide, but abusive language still remains a significant challenge in the social media framework. Based on this shared task, "Abusive Comment detection in Tamil@DravidianLangTech-ACL 2022", we present an exploration of different techniques used to tackle and increase the accuracy of our models using data augmentation in NLP. We also show the results of these techniques.

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Most of the Emotion Analysis (EA) research works have focused on English language leaving several Indian 
languages including Tamil unexplored for this task. To address the challenges of EA in Tamil texts, in this paper, we -
team MUCS, describe the model submitted to the shared task on Emotion Analysis in Tamil at DravidianLangTech@ACL 2022. Out of the two subtasks in this shared task, our team submitted the model only for Task a. The proposed model comprises of an Ensemble of Logistic Regression (LR) classifiers with three penalties, namely: L1, L2, and Elasticnet. This Ensemble model trained with Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) of character bigrams and trigrams secured 4th rank in Task a with a macro averaged F1-score of 0.04. The code to reproduce the proposed models is available in github1 .

Ensemble of Logistic Regression Penalties to Identify Emotions in Tamil Text

Trolling refers to any user behavior on the internet to intentionally provoke or instigate conflict, predominantly on social media. This paper aims to classify troll meme captions in Tamil-English code-mixed form. Embeddings are obtained for raw code-mixed text, and the translated and transliterated version of the text and their relative performances are compared. Furthermore, this paper compares the performances of 11 different classification algorithms using Accuracy and F1- Score. We conclude that we were able to achieve a weighted F1 score of 0.74 through MuRIL pretrained model.

A comparative analysis of classical and pre-trained models for troll meme classification in Tamil

This paper presents a summary of the findings that we obtained based on the shared task on machine translation of Dravidian languages. As a part of this shared task, we carried out neural machine translations for the following five language pairs: Kannada to Tamil, Kannada to Telugu, Kannada to Malayalam, Kannada to Sanskrit, and Kannada to Tulu. The datasets for each of the five language pairs were used to train various translation models, including Seq2Seq models such as LSTM, bidirectional LSTM, Conv Seq2Seq, and training state-of-the-art as transformers from scratch, and fine-tuning already pre-trained models. For some models involving monolingual corpora, we implemented backtranslation as well. These models' accuracy was later tested with a part of the same dataset using BLEU score as an evaluation metric.

Neural Machine Translation On Dravidian Languages

Poster presentation for the paper, Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil. Discusses and compares various approaches as treating the task as a multi-class classification problem. Various classical ML algorithms and Transformer based approaches were tried for this task.

Abusive Detection in Tamil

This paper aims to perform an emotion analysis of social media comments in Tamil. Emotion analysis is the process of identifying the emotional context of the text. In this paper, we present the findings obtained by Team Optimize_Prime in the ACL 2022 shared task "Emotion Analysis in Tamil." The task aimed to classify social media comments into categories of emotion like Joy, Anger, Trust, Disgust, etc. The task was further divided into two subtasks, one with 11 broad categories of emotions and the other with 31 specific categories of emotion. We implemented three different approaches to tackle this problem: transformer-based models, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Ensemble models. XLM-RoBERTa performed the best on the first task with a macro-averaged f1 score of 0.27, while MuRIL provided the best results on the second task with a macro-averaged f1 score of 0.13.

Emotion Analysis in Tamil

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 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 sub-lime results, with a macro-averaged f1 score of 0.45.

Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil

This paper presents the findings of the shared task on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Troll meme classification in Dravidian languages held at ACL 2022. Multimodal sentiment analysis deals with the identification of sentiment from video. In addition to video data, the task requires the analysis of corresponding text and audio features for the classification of movie reviews into five classes. We created a dataset for this task in Malayalam and Tamil. The Troll meme classification task aims to classify multimodal Troll memes into two categories. This task assumes the analysis of both text and image features for making better predictions. The performance of the participating teams was analysed using the F1-score. Only one team submitted their results in the Multimodal Sentiment Analysis task, whereas we received six submissions in the Troll meme classification task. The only team that participated in the Multimodal Sentiment Analysis shared task obtained an F1-score of 0.24. In the Troll meme classification task, the winning team achieved an F1-score of 0.596.

Findings of the Shared Task on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Troll Meme Classification in Dravidian Languages

This paper presents an outline of the shared task on translation of under-resourced Dravidian languages at DravidianLangTech-2022 workshop to be held jointly with ACL 2022. A description of the datasets used, approach taken for analysis of submissions and the results have been illustrated in this paper. Five sub-tasks organized as a part of the shared task include the following translation pairs: Kannada to Tamil, Kannada to Telugu, Kannada to Sanskrit, Kannada to Malayalam and Kannada to Tulu. Training, development and test datasets were provided to all participants and results were evaluated on the gold standard datasets. A total of 16 research groups participated in the shared task and a total of 12 submission runs were made for evaluation. Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) score was used for evaluation of the translations.

Overview of the Shared Task on Machine Translation in Dravidian Languages

The social media is one of the significant digital platforms that create a huge impact in peoples of all levels. The comments posted on social media is powerful enough to even change the political and business scenarios in very few hours. They also tend to attack a particular individual or a group of individuals. This shared task aims at detecting the abusive comments involving, Homophobia, Misandry, Counter- speech, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Transphobic. The hope speech is also identified. A dataset collected from social media tagged with the above said categories in Tamil and Tamil-English code-mixed languages are given to the participants. The participants used different machine learning and deep learning algorithms. This paper presents the overview of this task comprising the dataset details and results of the participants.

Overview of Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil-ACL 2022

The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME), a 1.7-million-word treebank that is an important resource for research in syntactic change, has several properties that present potential challenges for NLP technologies. We describe these key features of PPCEME that make it challenging for parsing, including a larger and more varied set of function tags than in the Penn Treebank, and present results for this corpus using a modified version of the Berkeley Neural Parser and the approach to function tag recovery of Gabbard et al. (2006). While this approach to function tag recovery gives reasonable results, it is in some ways inappropriate for span-based parsers. We also present further evidence of the importance of in-domain pretraining for contextualized word representations. The resulting parser will be used to parse Early English Books Online, a 1.1 billion word corpus whose utility for the study of syntactic change will be greatly increased with the addition of accurate parse trees.


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