{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/predicting-the-type-and-target-of-offensive-1","title":"Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Social Media Posts in Marathi","arxiv_id":"2211.12570","date":"2022-11-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Marcos Zampieri","Tharindu Ranasinghe","Mrinal Chaudhari","Saurabh Gaikwad","Prajwal Krishna","Mayuresh Nene","Shrunali Paygude"],"abstract":"The presence of offensive language on social media is very common motivating platforms to invest in strategies to make communities safer. This includes developing robust machine learning systems capable of recognizing offensive content online. Apart from a few notable exceptions, most research on automatic offensive language identification has dealt with English and a few other high resource languages such as French, German, and Spanish. In this paper we address this gap by tackling offensive language identification in Marathi, a low-resource Indo-Aryan language spoken in India. We introduce the Marathi Offensive Language Dataset v.2.0 or MOLD 2.0 and present multiple experiments on this dataset. MOLD 2.0 is a much larger version of MOLD with expanded annotation to the levels B (type) and C (target) of the popular OLID taxonomy. MOLD 2.0 is the first hierarchical offensive language dataset compiled for Marathi, thus opening new avenues for research in low-resource Indo-Aryan languages. Finally, we also introduce SeMOLD, a larger dataset annotated following the semi-supervised methods presented in SOLID.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12570v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.12570v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"predicting-the-type-and-target-of-offensive-1","repo_url":"https://github.com/tharindudr/mold","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"language-identification","task_name":"Language Identification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}