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TeamUNCC@LT-EDI-EACL2021: Hope Speech Detection using Transfer Learning with Transformers
Khyati Mahajan, Erfan Al-Hossami, Samira Shaikh
In this paper, we describe our approach towards utilizing pre-trained models for the task of hope speech detection. We participated in Task 2: Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at LT-EDI-2021 @ EACL2021. The goal of this task is to predict the presence of hope speech, along with the presence of samples that do not belong to the same language in the dataset. We describe our approach to fine-tuning RoBERTa for Hope Speech detection in English and our approach to fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Hope Speech detection in Tamil and Malayalam, two low resource Indic languages. We demonstrate the performance of our approach on classifying text into hope-speech, non-hope and not-language. Our approach ranked 1st in English (F1 = 0.93), 1st in Tamil (F1 = 0.61) and 3rd in Malayalam (F1 = 0.83).
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Speech Detection | HopeEDI | RoBERTa | Weighted Average F1-score | 0.93 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Hope Speech Detection for English | HopeEDI | RoBERTa | Weighted Average F1-score | 0.93 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Hope Speech Detection for Malayalam | HopeEDI | XLM-RoBERTa | Weighted Average F1-score | 0.87 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Hope Speech Detection for Tamil | HopeEDI | XLM-RoBERTa | Weighted Average F1-score | 0.60 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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