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

**Organizers:** Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari
Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly, Sinnathamby Mahesan
 **Description:** The development of technology increases our internet use, and most of the global languages have adapted themselves
to the digital era. However, there are many regional, under-resourced languages that face challenges as they still lack
developments in language technology [1]. One such language family is the Dravidian family of languages. Dravidian
languages are primarily spoken in south India and Sri Lanka. Pockets of speakers are found in Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia,
other parts of India and elsewhere in the world. The Dravidian languages, which are 4,500 years old [2] and spoken by
millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing [1]. The Dravidian languages are
divided into four groups: South, South-Central, Central, and North groups. Dravidian morphology is agglutinating and
exclusively suffixal. Syntactically, Dravidian languages are head-final and left-branching. They are free-constituent order
languages. To improve access to and production of information for monolingual speakers of Dravidian languages, it is
necessary to have speech and languages technologies. The aim of these workshops is to save the Dravidian languages
from extinction in technology. This is the first workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages.
 
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