Detection of homophobia & transphobia in Malayalam and Tamil: Exploring deep learning methods

Sharma, Deepawali, Gupta, Vedika and Singh, Vivek Kumar (2023) Detection of homophobia & transphobia in Malayalam and Tamil: Exploring deep learning methods. In: Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1798 . Springer, Cham, pp. 217-226. ISBN 9783031281839

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Abstract

The increase in abusive content on online social media platforms is impacting the social life of online users. Use of offensive and hate speech has been making social media toxic. Homophobia and transphobia constitute offensive comments against LGBT + community. It becomes imperative to detect and handle these comments, to timely flag or issue a warning to users indulging in such behaviour. However, automated detection of such content is a challenging task, more so in Dravidian languages which are identified as low resource languages. Motivated by this, the paper attempts to explore applicability of different deep learning models for classification of the social media comments in Malayalam and Tamil languages as homophobic, transphobic and non-anti-LGBT + content. The popularly used deep learning models-Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) using GloVe embedding and transformer-based learning models (Multilingual BERT and IndicBERT) are applied to the classification problem. Results obtained show that IndicBERT outperforms the other implemented models, with obtained weighted average F1-score of 0.86 and 0.77 for Malayalam and Tamil, respectively. Therefore, the present work confirms higher performance of IndicBERT on the given task on selected Dravidian languages.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Deep Learning | Homophobia | Malayalam | Tamil | Transphobia
Subjects: Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Engineering and Technology
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Business School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2023 05:58
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2023 06:30
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28183-9_15
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/5733

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