Hateful and offensive content on social media platforms can have negative effects on users and can make online communities more hostile towards certain people and hamper equality, diversity and inclusion. In this paper, we describe our approach to classifying homophobia and transphobia in social media comments. We used an
ensemble of transformer-based models to build our classifier. Our model ranked 2nd for English, 8th for Tamil and 10th for Tamil-English.


Ensembled Transformers Against Homophobia and Transphobia

**Organizers:** Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, John P. McCrae, Manel Zarrouk, Kalika Bali, Paul
Buitelaar
 **Description:** Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field throughout the world. Language as a
major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s large internet community
uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is
valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and
deep learning are entrenching existing biases and that some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such
as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender, racial, sexual orientation,
persons with disability. The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in
English, but also in less resourced languages.
 
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(LT-EDI) The Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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