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author = "Goswami, Dhiman and
Puspo, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury and
Raihan, Md Nishat and
Emran, Al Nahian Bin",
editor = {Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja and
B, Bharathi and
Buitelaar, Paul and
Durairaj, Thenmozhi and
Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy and
Garc{\'i}a Cumbreras, Miguel {\'A}ngel},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian's, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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%T MasonTigers@LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach Towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments
%A Goswami, Dhiman
%A Puspo, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury
%A Raihan, Md Nishat
%A Emran, Al Nahian Bin
%Y Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja
%Y B, Bharathi
%Y Buitelaar, Paul
%Y Durairaj, Thenmozhi
%Y Kovács, György
%Y García Cumbreras, Miguel Ángel
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F goswami-etal-2024-masontigers
%X In this paper, we describe our approaches and results for Task 2 of the LT-EDI 2024 Workshop, aimed at detecting homophobia and/or transphobia across ten languages. Our methodologies include monolingual transformers and ensemble methods, capitalizing on the strengths of each to enhance the performance of the models. The ensemble models worked well, placing our team, MasonTigers, in the top five for eight of the ten languages, as measured by the macro F1 score. Our work emphasizes the efficacy of ensemble methods in multilingual scenarios, addressing the complexities of language-specific tasks.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.17/
%P 164-172
Markdown (Informal)
[MasonTigers@LT-EDI-2024: An Ensemble Approach Towards Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Social Media Comments](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.17/) (Goswami et al., LTEDI 2024)
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