2025
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RMKMavericks@DravidianLangTech 2025: Tackling Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women: A Linguistic Approach
Sandra Johnson
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Boomika E
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Lahari P
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Social media abuse of women is a widespread problem, especially in regional languages like Tamil and Malayalam, where there are few tools for automated identification. The use of machine learning methods to detect abusive messages in several languages is examined in this work. An external dataset was used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model for Tamil, which produced an F1 score of 0.6196. Using the given dataset, a Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB) model was trained for Malayalam, obtaining an F1 score of 0.6484. Both models processed and analyzed textual input efficiently by using TF-IDF vectorization for feature extraction. This method shows the ability to solve the linguistic diversity and complexity of abusive language identification by utilizing language-specific datasets and customized algorithms. The results highlight how crucial it is to use focused machine learning techniques to make online spaces safer for women, especially when speaking minority languages.
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RMKMavericks@DravidianLangTech 2025: Emotion Mining in Tamil and Tulu Code-Mixed Text: Challenges and Insights
Gladiss Merlin N.r
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Boomika E
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Lahari P
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Sentiment analysis in code-mixed social media comments written in Tamil and Tulu presents unique challenges due to grammatical inconsistencies, code-switching, and the use of non-native scripts. To address these complexities, we employ pre-processing techniques for text cleaning and evaluate machine learning models tailored for sentiment detection. Traditional machine learning methods combined with feature extraction strategies, such as TF- IDF, are utilized. While logistic regression demonstrated reasonable performance on the Tamil dataset, achieving a macro F1 score of 0.44, support vector machines (SVM) outperformed logistic regression on the Tulu dataset with a macro F1 score of 0.54. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of traditional approaches, particularly SVM, in handling low- resource, multilingual data, while also high- lighting the need for further refinement to improve performance across underrepresented sentiment classes.
2024
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Challenges and Insights in Identifying Hate Speech and Fake News on Social Media
Shanthi Murugan
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Arthi R
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Boomika E
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Jeyanth S
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Kaviyarasu S
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate)
Social media has transformed communication, but it has also brought abouta number of serious problems, most notablythe proliferation of hate speech and falseinformation. hate-related conversations arefrequently fueled by misleading narratives.We address this issue by building a multiclassclassification model trained on Faux HateMulti-Label Dataset (Biradar et al. 2024)which consists of hateful remarks that arefraudulent and have a code mix of Hindi andEnglish. Model has been built to classifySeverity (Low, Medium, High) and Target(Individual, Organization, Religion) on thedataset. Performance of the model isevaluated on test dataset achieved varyingscored for each. For Severity model achieves74%, for Target model achieves 74%. Thelimitations and performance issues of themodel has been understood and wellexplained.