# Pretrained Transformers for Offensive Language Identification in Tanglish

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02852 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.02852/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 12 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Oct 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.11080/) (2020)
- [On the Stability of Fine-tuning BERT: Misconceptions, Explanations, and Strong Baselines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.04884/) (2020)
- [MuRIL: Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.10730/) (2021)
- [Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.06146/) (2018)
- [Dataset for Identification of Homophobia and Transophobia in Multilingual YouTube Comments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.00227/) (2021)
- [DravidianCodeMix: Sentiment Analysis and Offensive Language Identification Dataset for Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09460/) (2021)
- [Do Images really do the Talking? Analysing the significance of Images in Tamil Troll meme classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.03886/) (2021)
- [Offensive Language Identification in Low-resourced Code-mixed Dravidian languages using Pseudo-labeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.12177/) (2021)
- [DravidianMultiModality: A Dataset for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis in Tamil and Malayalam](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.04853/) (2021)
- [Theedhum Nandrum@Dravidian-CodeMix-FIRE2020: A Sentiment Polarity Classifier for YouTube Comments with Code-switching between Tamil, Malayalam and English](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03189/) (2020)
- [TrollsWithOpinion: A Dataset for Predicting Domain-specific Opinion Manipulation in Troll Memes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03571/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Hypers at ComMA@ICON: Modelling Aggressiveness, Gender Bias and Communal Bias Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.15417/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes the system submitted to Dravidian-Codemix-HASOC2021: Hate Speech and Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (Tamil-English and Malayalam-English). This task aims to identify offensive content in code-mixed comments/posts in Dravidian Languages collected from social media. Our approach utilizes pooling the last layers of pretrained transformer multilingual BERT for this task which helped us achieve rank nine on the leaderboard with a weighted average score of 0.61 for the Tamil-English dataset in subtask B. After the task deadline, we sampled the dataset uniformly and used the MuRIL pretrained model, which helped us achieve a weighted average score of 0.67, the top score in the leaderboard. Furthermore, our approach to utilizing the pretrained models helps reuse our models for the same task with a different dataset. Our code and models are available in https://github.com/seanbenhur/tanglish-offensive-language-identification