Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada

no code implementations • EACL (DravidianLangTech) 2021 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Navya Jose, Anand Kumar M, Thomas Mandl, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Hariharan R L, John P. McCrae, Elizabeth Sherly

Detecting offensive language in social media in local languages is critical for moderating user-generated content.

Benchmarking Language Identification

Overview of The Shared Task on Homophobia and Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments

no code implementations • LTEDI (ACL) 2022 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Thenmozhi Durairaj, John McCrae, Paul Buitelaar, Prasanna Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy

This shared taskfocused on three sub-tasks for Tamil, English, and Tamil-English (code-mixed) languages.

Overview of the Shared Task on Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

no code implementations • LTEDI (ACL) 2022 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Ruba Priyadharshini, Subalalitha Cn, John McCrae, Miguel Ángel García, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Rafael Valencia-García, Prasanna Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Daniel García-Baena, José García-Díaz

Hope Speech detection is the task of classifying a sentence as hope speech or non-hope speech given a corpus of sentences.

Hope Speech Detection for Tamil Sentence

Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Span Identification fromCode-Mixed Tamil-English Comments

no code implementations • DravidianLangTech (ACL) 2022 • Manikandan Ravikiran, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sangeetha S, Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Shankar Mahadevan

Offensive content moderation is vital in social media platforms to support healthy online discussions.

Thirumurai: A Large Dataset of Tamil Shaivite Poems and Classification of Tamil Pann

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Shankar Mahadevan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Prabakaran Chandran, Ruba Priyadharshini, Sangeetha S, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

Thirumurai, also known as Panniru Thirumurai, is a collection of Tamil Shaivite poems dating back to the Hindu revival period between the 6th and the 10th century.

Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Span Identification from Code-Mixed Tamil-English Comments

no code implementations • 12 May 2022 • Manikandan Ravikiran, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sangeetha Sivanesan, Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Shankar Mahadevan. /

Offensive content moderation is vital in social media platforms to support healthy online discussions.

TamilEmo: Finegrained Emotion Detection Dataset for Tamil

no code implementations • 9 Feb 2022 • Charangan Vasantharajan, Sean Benhur, Prasanna Kumar Kumarasen, Rahul Ponnusamy, Sathiyaraj Thangasamy, Ruba Priyadharshini, Thenmozhi Durairaj, Kanchana Sivanraju, Anbukkarasi Sampath, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, John Phillip McCrae

Our MURIL-base model has achieved a 0. 60 macro average F1-score across our 3-class group dataset.

Emotion Recognition

Findings of the Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text

no code implementations • 18 Nov 2021 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Dhivya Chinnappa, Durairaj Thenmozhi, Elizabeth Sherly, John P. McCrae, Adeep Hande, Rahul Ponnusamy, Shubhanker Banerjee, Charangan Vasantharajan

We received 22 systems for Tamil-English, 15 systems for Malayalam-English, and 15 for Kannada-English.

Sentiment Analysis

Developing Successful Shared Tasks on Offensive Language Identification for Dravidian Languages

no code implementations • 5 Nov 2021 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Dhivya Chinnappa, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sangeetha Sivanesan, Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Dhanalakshmi Vadivel, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan

With the fast growth of mobile computing and Web technologies, offensive language has become more prevalent on social networking platforms.

Language Identification

Dataset for Identification of Homophobia and Transophobia in Multilingual YouTube Comments

no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Kayalvizhi Sampath, Durairaj Thenmozhi, Sathiyaraj Thangasamy, Rajendran Nallathambi, John Phillip McCrae

We provide a new hierarchical taxonomy for online homophobia and transphobia, as well as an expert-labelled dataset that will allow homophobic/transphobic content to be automatically identified.

DravidianMultiModality: A Dataset for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis in Tamil and Malayalam

no code implementations • 9 Jun 2021 • Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Jishnu Parameswaran P. K, Premjith B, K. P Soman, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Kingston Pal Thamburaj, John P. McCrae

This is the first multimodal sentiment analysis dataset for Tamil and Malayalam by volunteer annotators.

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

IIITK@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Tamil , Malayalam and English

1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2021 • Nikhil Ghanghor, Rahul Ponnusamy, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Ruba Priyadharshini, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

This paper describes the IIITK’s team submissions to the hope speech detection for equality, diversity and inclusion in Dravidian languages shared task organized by LT-EDI 2021 workshop@EACL 2021.

Hope Speech Detection