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Social media in the present world is an essential communication platform for information sharing. But their emergence has now led to an increase in the proportion of online abuse, in particular against women in the form of abusive and offensive messages. A reflection of the social inequalities, the importance of detecting abusive language is highlighted by the fact that the usage has a profound psychological and social impact on the victims. This work by DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 aims at developing an automated abusive content detection system for women directed towards women on the Tamil and Malayalam platforms, two of the Dravidian languages. Based on a dataset of their YouTube comments about sensitive issues, the study uses multilingual BERT (mBERT) to detect abusive comments versus non-abusive ones. We achieved F1 scores of 0.75 in Tamil and 0.68 in Malayalam, placing us 13 and 9 respectively.

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NLP_goats@DravidianLangTech 2025: Towards Safer Social Media: Detecting Abusive Language Directed at Women in Dravidian Languages

tamil and malayalam nlp

multilingual bert (mbert)

dravidian languages

abusive language detection

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Misogynistic memes on social media perpetuate gender stereotypes, contribute to harassment, and suppress feminist activism. However, most existing misogyny detection models focus on high-resource languages, leaving a gap in low-resource settings. This work addresses that gap by focusing on misogynistic memes in Tamil and Malayalam, two Dravidian languages with limited resources. We combine computer vision and natural language processing for multi-modal detection, using CLIP embeddings for the vision component and BERT models trained on code-mixed hate speech datasets for the text component. Our results show that this integrated approach effectively captures the unique characteristics of misogynistic memes in these languages, achieving competitive performance with a Macro F1 Score of 0.7800 for the Tamil test set and 0.8748 for the Malayalam test set. These findings highlight the potential of multimodal models and the adaptation of pre-trained models to specific linguistic and cultural contexts, advancing misogyny detection in low-resource settings. Code available at https://github.com/HerWILL-Inc/NAACL-2025

HerWILL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Ensemble Approach for Misogyny Detection in Memes Using Pre-trained Text and Vision Transformers

Fake news detection is a crucial task in combat- ing misinformation, particularly in underrepresented languages such as Malayalam. This paper focuses on detecting fake news in Dravidian languages using two tasks: Social Media Text Classification and News Classification. We employ a fine-tuned multilingual BERT (mBERT) model for classifying a given social media text into original or fake and an LSTM-based architecture for accurately detecting and classifying fake news articles in the Malayalam language into different categories. Extensive preprocessing techniques, such as tokenization and text cleaning, were used to ensure data quality. Our experiments achieved significant accuracy rates and F1- scores. The study’s contributions include applying advanced machine learning techniques to the Malayalam language, addressing the lack of research on low-resource languages, and highlighting the challenges of fake news detection in multilingual and code-mixed environments.

Cognitext@DravidianLangTech2025: Fake News Classification in Malayalam Using mBERT and LSTM

The rise of AI-generated content has introduced challenges in distinguishing machine-generated text from human-written text, particularly in low-resource languages. The identification of artificial intelligence (AI)-based reviews is of significant importance to preserve trust and authenticity on online platforms. The Shared Task on Detecting AI-Generated Product Reviews in Dravidian languages deals with the task of detecting AI-generated and human-written reviews in Tamil and Malayalam. To solve this problem, we specifically fine-tuned mBERT for binary classification. Our system achieved 10th place in Tamil with a macro F1-score of 0.90 and 28th place in Malayalam with a macro F1-score of 0.68, as reported by the NAACL 2025 organizers. The findings demonstrate the complexity involved in the separation of AI-derived text from human-authored writing, with a call for continued advances in detection methods.

NLP_goats_DravidianLangTech_2025__Detecting_AI_Written_Reviews_for_Consumer_Trust

Detecting AI-generated reviews is crucial for maintaining the authenticity of online feedback in low-resource languages like Tamil and Malayalam. We propose a transfer learning-based approach using embeddings from XLM-RoBERTa, IndicBERT, mT5, and Sentence-BERT, validated with five-fold cross-validation via XGBoost. These embeddings are used to train deep neural networks (DNNs), refined through a weighted ensemble model. Our method achieves 90% F1-score for Malayalam and 73% for Tamil, demonstrating the effectiveness of transfer learning and ensembling for review detection. The source code is publicly available to support further research and improve online review systems in multilingual settings.

RATHAN@DravidianLangTech 2025: Annaparavai - Separate the Authentic Human Reviews from AI-generated one

Social media is a powerful communication tool and rich in diverse content requiring innovative approaches to understand nuances of the lan- guages. Addressing challenges like hate speech necessitates multimodal analysis that integrates textual, and other cues to capture its context and intent effectively. This paper proposes a multimodal hate speech detection system in Tamil, which uses textual and audio features for classification. Our proposed system uses a fine-tuned Indic-BERT model for text based hate speech detection and Wav2Vec2 model for audio based hate speech detection of au- dio data. The fine-tuned Indic-BERT model with Whisper achieved an F1 score of 0.25 on Multimodal approach. Our proposed approach ranked at 10th position in the shared task on Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravid- ian languages at the NAACL 2025 Workshop DravidianLangTech.

DLRG@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian Languages

Ensuring a safe and inclusive online environment requires effective hate speech detection on social media. While detection systems have significantly advanced for English, many regional languages, including Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, remain underrepresented, creating challenges in identifying harmful content accurately. These languages present unique challenges due to their complex grammar, diverse dialects, and frequent code-mixing with English. The rise of multimodal content, including text and audio, adds further complexity to detection tasks. The shared task ``Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian Languages: DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025'' has aimed to address these challenges. A Youtube-sourced dataset has been provided, labeled into five categories: Gender (G), Political (P), Religious (R), Personal Defamation (C) and Non-Hate (NH). In our approach, we have used mBERT, T5 for text and Wav2Vec2 and Whisper for audio. T5 has performed poorly compared to mBERT, which has achieved the highest F1 scores on the test dataset. For audio, Wav2Vec2 has been chosen over Whisper because it processes raw audio effectively using self-supervised learning. In the hate speech detection task, we have achieved a macro F1 score of 0.2005 for Malayalam, ranking 15th in this task, 0.1356 for Tamil and 0.1465 for Telugu, with both ranking 16th in this task.

Team ML_Forge@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Dravidian Languages

Abusive comment detection in low-resource languages is a challenging task particularly when addressing gender-based abuse. Iden tifying abusive language targeting women is crucial for effective content moderation and fostering safer online spaces. A shared task on abusive comment detection in Tamil text organized by DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 allowed us to address this challenge using a curated dataset. For this task, we experimented with various machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models includ ing Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM, CNN, LSTM, BiLSTMand transformer-based models such as mBERT, IndicBERT, XLM RoBERTa and many more. The dataset com prised of Tamil YouTube comments anno tated with binary labels, Abusive and Non Abusive capturing explicit abuse, implicit bi ases and stereotypes. Our experiments demon strated that XLM-RoBERTa achieved the high est macro F1-score(0.80), highlighting its effec tiveness in handling Tamil text. This research contributes to advancing abusive language de tection and natural language processing in low resource languages particularly for addressing gender-based abuse online.

CUET_Ignite@DravidianLangTech-NAACL2025: Detection of Abusive Comments in Tamil Text Using Transformer Models

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening new doors of learning and interaction. However, it has its share of problems. One major issue is the ability of AI to generate text that resembles human-written text. So, how can we tell apart human-written text from AI-generated text? With this in mind, we have worked on detecting AI-generated product reviews in Dravidian languages, mainly in Malayalam and Tamil. The ``Shared Task on Detecting AI-Generated Product Reviews in Dravidian Languages,'' held as part of the DravidianLangTech Workshop at NAACL 2025 has provided a dataset categorized into two categories, human-written review and AI-generated review. We have implemented four machine learning models (Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, and XGBoost), four deep learning models (Long Short-Term Memory, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory, Gated Recurrent Unit, and Recurrent Neural Network), and three transformer-based models (AI-Human-Detector, Detect-AI-Text, and E5-Small-Lora-AI-Generated-Detector). We have conducted a comparative study among all the models by training and evaluating each model on the dataset. We have discovered that the transformer, E5-Small-Lora-AI-Generated-Detector, has provided the best result with an F1 score of 0.8994 on the test set ranking 7th position in the Malayalam language. Tamil has a higher token overlap and richer morphology than Malayalam. Thus, we obtained a worse F1 score of 0.5877 ranking 28th position in the Tamil language among all participants in the shared task.

CUET_Absolute_Zero@DravidianLangTech 2025: Detecting AI-Generated Product Reviews in Malayalam and Tamil Language Using Transformer Models

This study focuses on developing a solution for detecting abusive texts on social media against women in Tamil and Malayalam, two low-resource Dravidian languages in South India. As the usage of social media for communication and idea sharing has increased significantly, these platforms are being used to target and victimize women. Hence an automated solution becomes necessary to screen the huge volume of content generated. This work is part of the shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text targeting Women on Social Media DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. The approach used to tackle this problem involves utilizing LLM based techniques for classifying abusive text. The Macro Average F1-Score for the Tamil BERT model was 0.76 securing the 11th position, while the Malayalam BERT model for Malayalam obtained a score of 0.30 and secured the 33rd rank. The proposed solution can be extended further to incorporate other regional languages as well based on similar techniques.

SSNTrio@DravidianLangTech2025: LLM Based Techniques for Detection of Abusive Text Targeting Women

Fake news detection is a critical problem in today's digital age, aiming to classify intentionally misleading or fabricated news content. In this study, we present a transformer- and LLM-based ensemble method to address the challenges in fake news detection. We explored various machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), transformer, and LLM-based approaches on a Malayalam fake news detection dataset. Our findings highlight the difficulties faced by traditional ML and DL methods in accurately detecting fake news, while transformer- and LLM-based ensemble methods demonstrate significant improvements in performance. The ensemble method combining Sarvam-1, Malayalam-BERT, and XLM-R outperformed all other approaches, achieving an F1-score of 89.30% on the given dataset. This accomplishment, which contributed to securing 2^{nd} place in the shared task at DravidianLangTech 2025, underscores the importance of developing effective methods for detecting fake news in Dravidian languages.

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