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        <article-title>models for Conversational Hate Speech Detection in Code-mixed tweets utilizing Data Augmentation and Ofensive Language Identification in Marathi</article-title>
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          <string-name>Koyel Ghosh</string-name>
          <email>ghosh.koyel8@gmail.com</email>
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          <string-name>Apurbalal Senapati</string-name>
          <email>a.senapati@cit.ac.in</email>
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          <string-name>Utpal Garain</string-name>
          <email>utpal.garain@gmail.com</email>
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          <string-name>Hindi-English, German, Marathi</string-name>
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          <institution>Central Institute of Technology</institution>
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          <addr-line>Kokrajhar, Assam</addr-line>
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          <country country="IN">India</country>
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          <label>1</label>
          <institution>Hate Speech</institution>
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          <addr-line>Transformers, Binary classification, Multiclass-classification, Code-Mixed Languages</addr-line>
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          <institution>Indian Statistical Institute</institution>
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          <addr-line>Kolkata</addr-line>
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          <country country="IN">India</country>
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        <p>In today's world, social media plays a vital role in spreading hate towards a person or group based on their color, caste, sex, sexual orientation, political diferences, etc. Most of the work is done on a single tweet or comment classification, which lacks the conversation's context. The tweet, corresponding comments, and reply often helps us understand the context of the entire discussion. This paper discusses the used system and the performance of the team CITK_ISI on the first available code-mixed dataset on Hindi-English and German conversation scrapped from Twitter. Data augmentation is used with a baseline transfer-based BERT model and achieved a macro F1 score of 0.6653 for ICHCL Hinglish and German codemix binary classification. The system also identifies hate speech and ofensive language in Marathi, a binary classification that secures a macro F1 score of 0.9019.</p>
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        <kwd>Ofensive Language Identification</kwd>
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      <title>1. Introduction</title>
      <p>
        Instead of being friendly or informative, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube,
etc. are becoming the platforms for cyberbullying and online harassment, leading people to
depression or provoking people to involve in violence [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ]. There are numerous instances
around the globe in spreading such hate speeches disturbs social and communal integrity. As
a result, numerous platforms of social media websites monitor user posts. This directs to an
urgent injunction for methods to identify suspicious posts automatically. Most research on
hate speech detection is done in English-like languages. Low-resource languages sufer from a
lack of annotated datasets. Though few mono-lingual datasets in low-resource languages are
available, code-mixed data like Hinglish (assembled of the words spoken in Hindi but written
in the Roman script rather than the Devanagari script) are often used on Twitter, Facebook
etc. This code-mixed language consists of diferent grammatical uses, slang and hateful words,
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including phonetic variations, misspelled words, and contextual usage in sentences. As well
as the context of conversion plays a vital role in understanding the hate towards someone or
something. Sometimes a parent tweet doesn’t spread hate or fake news, but comments or replies
associated with it directly attack the person who posts the tweet. Figure 1 shows an example
reply supporting a hate comment towards a source tweet.</p>
      <p>
        Keeping this scenario in mind Hate Speech and Ofensive Content Identification in English
and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC) 20221 [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ] proposes two tasks this year 1) Task 1 ICHCL
Binary Classification - Identification of Conversational Hate-Speech in Code-Mixed Languages
like Hinglish and German 2) Task 2 ICHCL Multiclass CLassification - Identification of
Conversational Hate-Speech in Code-Mixed Languages only in Hinglish. Along with that,
they proposed 3) Task 3A Marathi- Ofensive Language Identification in Marathi 4) Task
3B Marathi- Categorisation of Ofensive Language in Marathi 5) Task 3C Marathi- Ofense
Target Identification in Marathi [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ]. All five tasks are the extension of the previous year’s
HASOC 2021 task2.
      </p>
      <p>
        This paper attempted to identify hate speech content in all five tasks. Pre-trained BERT
(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) such as mBERT [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
        ], MahaBERT [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
        ],
is used for this work.
      </p>
      <p>The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 is the work related to hate speech
detection in Hindi and Marathi languages. Section 3 describes the experimental setup, including
the dataset, preprocessing steps, and baseline pre-trained BERT models. Section 4 shows the
1https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2022/index.html
2https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2021/index.html
results and findings from the experiments. Finally, it is concluded in Section 5.</p>
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      <title>2. Related work</title>
      <p>The primary challenges of hate speech detection are the absence of related resources like
language-specific datasets. Creating labeled datasets of hate speech in the Indian language
is tedious and challenging. It needs lots of groundwork and preprocessing, like cleaning,
annotators’ agreements, etc., to create valuable data from social media. This section briefly
outlines the existing approaches and available datasets of Hindi, Hindi-English and Marathi
languages.</p>
      <p>
        • Hindi: HASOC (Hate Speech and Ofensive Content Identification), a shared task
organized by FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation)3, which published hate
datasets in Indian languages such as Hindi, Marathi, etc. HASOC ofers four subtracks,
one of which is relevant to us: HASOC - English and Indo-Aryan Languages. The
distribution of datasets comes in a tab-separated format. Other collections, including
HASOC, use techniques to identify hate speech in online posts. In 2019, the HASOC-Hindi
dataset ofered three tasks [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
        ]. Subtask A, which is the first task, is binary classification.
Identifying the profanity or abuse (multiclass) of the hate comment is the second task,
or subtask B. Subtask C involves determining if the hate speech is targeted at a specific
person or is more general (untargeted). In Hindi, 93 runs were submitted for 3 diferent
mini-tasks. Regarding the Hindi subtask A, the winner team, QutNocturnal [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ], used a
CNN-based method with a Word2vec embedding, yielding improved Marco F1 (0.8149)
and Weighted F1 (0.8202) scores. The second group, LGI2P [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
        ], employed BERT for
classification after training a fastText model for the proposed Hindi language. Both the
Marco-F1 and Weighted-F1 values for the system were 0.8111. Subtask B of the Hindi
dataset receives a score of 0.5812 in Marco-F1 and 0.7147 in Weighted-F1 when BERT is
used by 3Idiots [9]. This subtask C Hindi Dataset was completed with a high Marco-F1
score of 0.5754 by team A3-108 [10]. According to them, Adaboost [11] was the best
performing classifier among the three classifiers, i.e., Adaboost or Adaptive Boosting
(AB), Random Forest (RF), Linear Support Vector Machine (SVM). They merge multiple
weak classifiers to construct a robust prediction model, but an ensemble of SVM, Random
Forest, and Adaboost with hard voting performed even better. This classifier used TF-IDF
features of word unigrams and characters 2, 3, 4, and 5 grams with an additional feature
of the length of every tweet.
      </p>
      <p>In HASOC 2020, two Hate Speech detection tasks [12], sub-task A (binary class) and
sub-task B (multiclass) are proposed with another Hindi dataset in the research area.
NSIT_ML_Geeks [13] outperforms other teams in the competition scoring Marco-F1
0.5337 and 0.2667 in sub-task A and sub-task B, respectively, utilizing CNN and BiLSTM.
Nohate [14] team achieved Marco-F1 0.3345 in sub-task B, fine-tuning the BERT model
for the classification.</p>
      <p>
        In 2021, HASOC published a Hindi dataset [15] with sub-task A and B again. Total
Sixty-five teams submitted a total of six thousand and fity-two runs. The best submission
was achieved Macro F1 0.7825 in sub-task A with a fine-tuned Multilingual-BERT (20
epochs) with a classifier layer added at the final phase. The second team also fine-tuned
Multilingual-BERT and scored Macro F1 0.7797. NeuralSpace [16] got Macro F1 0.5603
in sub-task B. They use an XLM-R transformer, vector representations for emojis using
the system Emoji2Vec, and sentence embeddings for hashtags. After that, three resulting
representations were concatenated before classification. In the paper [ 17] they used the
pre-trained multilingual BERT (m-BERT) model for computing the input embedding on
the Hostility Detection Dataset (Hindi) later SVM, Random-Forest, Multilayer perceptron
(MLP), Logistic Regression models are used as classifiers. In coarse-grained evaluation,
SVM reported the best weighted-F1 score of 84%, whereas they obtained 84%, 83%, and
80% weighted-F1 scores for LR, MLP, and RF. In fine-grained evaluation, SVM has the most
excellent F1 score for evaluating three hostile dimensions, namely Hate (47%), Ofensive
(42%), and Defamation (43%). Logistic Regression beats the others in the Fake dimension
with an F1 score of 68%.
• Hindi-English: In 2021, HASOC’s main track had another subtrack, i.e., Identification of
Conversational Hate-Speech in Code-Mixed Languages (ICHCL) [18], ofered as subtask-2
of the HASOC-English and Indo-Aryan Languages subtrack. The ICHCL subtask aims to
iflter posts that are normal on a standalone basis but might be judged as hate, profane and
ofensive posts if we consider the context. This subtask focused on the binary classification
of such contextual posts. The dataset is sampled from Twitter. Around 7000 code-mixed
posts in English and Hindi were downloaded and annotated with an annotation platform
developed for this task. Team MIDAS [19] is the top team of the ICHCL task. The authors
proposed a transformer-based approach that relied on a concatenation of the contextual
representation. They have used hard voting-based ensembles of three transformer models:
IndicBERT, Multilingual-BERT, and XML-ROBERta. The team added a dropout followed
by a fully connected layer to the end of each transfer-based model. Finally, the model
combines the probabilities of three models for the two classes, passed through a Softmax
layer. The scores were combined with an ensemble of classifiers using a hard voting
scheme to obtain the final classification result. The authors of Super Mario [ 20] fine-tuned
the XLM-Roberta-Large model with a classifier layer added at the end and trained on the
ICHCL dataset. A binary cross-entropy scheme was applied to train the system.
• Marathi: In HASOC-Marathi [15], the best-performing team, WLV-RIT fine-tuned
XLMR Large model with a simple softmax layer. Later executed transfer learning from English
data released for OfensEval 2019 [ 21] and Hindi data released for HASOC 2019 [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
        ] and
show that executing transfer learning from Hindi is better than executing transfer learning
from English. They Scored an F1 score of 0.9144 [22]. The second team applied a fine-tuned
LaBSE transformer [23] on the Marathi and the Hindi data set and achieved an F1 score of
0.8808. Their experiments show that the LaBSE transformer [24] outperforms XLM-R in
the monolingual settings, but XLM-R performs better when Hindi and Marathi data are
merged. L3CubeMahaHate [25] presents the first major Marathi hate speech dataset with
25,000 distinct tweets from Twitter, later annotated manually, and labeled them into four
major classes, i.e., hate, ofensive, profane, and not. Finally, they use CNN, LSTM, and
Transformers. Next, they explore monolingual and multilingual variants of BERT like
MahaBERT, IndicBERT, mBERT, and xlm-RoBERTa and show that monolingual models
perform better than their multilingual counterparts. Their MahaBERT [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
        ] model provides
the best results on L3Cube-MahaHate Corpus. In the paper [26], They present results from
several machine learning experiments on MOLD4 dataset, including zero-short and other
transfer learning experiments on state-of-the-art cross-lingual transformers from Bengali,
English, and Hindi data. Authors [27] release a Marathi dataset and experiment with
several machine learning models, including state-of-the-art transformer models, to predict
the type and target of ofensive tweets in Marathi. Later, attempt using cross-lingual
embeddings and transfer learning to spot ofensive language. Finally, they investigate
semi-supervised data augmentation. They built a larger semi-supervised dataset for
Marathi called SeMOLD, which has about 8000 examples.
      </p>
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      <title>3. Experimental setup</title>
      <sec id="sec-3-1">
        <title>3.1. Task description</title>
        <p>The brief of the task5is outlined below.</p>
        <p>• Task 1 ICHCL Binary Classification: It is ICHCL HINGLISH and GERMAN Codemix
Binary Classification. This task aims to identify Hinglish and German hate speech and
ofensive language. It is a coarse-grained binary classification to classify tweets into two
classes: hate and ofensive (HOF) and non-hate and ofensive (NOT).</p>
        <p>– (NOT) Non-Hate-Ofensive - This post does not contain hate speech or profane,
ofensive content.</p>
        <p>– (HOF) Hate and Ofensive - This post contains hate, ofensive, and profane content.
• Task 2 ICHCL Multiclass CLassification: Identification of Conversational Hate-Speech
in Code-Mixed Languages (ICHCL) - Multiclass Classification.</p>
        <p>This year for the Hinglish language, a multiclass task has been introduced that further
divides the HOF tweets into 3 subclasses:
– (SHOF) Standalone Hate - Ofensive, profane content is in tweets, comments, or
replies.
– (CHOF) Contextual Hate - Comment or reply supporting the hate, ofence and
profanity expressed in its parent. This includes afirming the hate with positive
sentiment and having apparent hate.
– (NONE) Non-Hate - This tweet, comment, or reply does not contain Hate, ofensive,
or profane content.
• Task 3A Marathi: Ofensive Language Detection
– OFF - Posts containing any form of non-acceptable language (profanity) or a targeted
ofence, which can be veiled or direct.
4MOLD is available at: https://github.com/ tharindudr/MOLD
5https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2022/call_for_participation.html</p>
        <p>– NOT - Posts that do not contain ofence or profanity.
• Task 3B Marathi: Categorisation of Ofensive Language
• Task 3C Marathi: Ofense Target Identification
– Targeted Insult (TIN) - Posts containing an insult/threat to an individual, group,
or others.
– Untargeted (UNT) - Posts containing nontargeted profanity and swearing.
– Individual (IND) - Posts targeting an individual.
– Group (GRP) - The target of these ofensive posts is a group of people considered
unity due to the same ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, political afiliation,
religious belief, or other common characteristics.
– Other (OTH) - The target of these ofensive posts does not belong to any of the
previous two categories.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-2">
        <title>3.2. Dataset</title>
        <p>This year, HASOC 2022 provides code-mixed Hinglish-German datasets tagged as “NOT” and
“HOF” for binary classification (Task 1) as well as “NONE ”, “SHOF” and “CHOF” for
multiclassification (Task 2).</p>
        <p>Table 1, 2 shows all five task dataset statistics separately. Here, we only include the total
count of the test data, not the label count of the test dataset, as it is not provided yet.</p>
        <p>Class label Training</p>
        <p>Task 1
NOT 2,609
HOF 2,612
TOTAL 5,221
Task 2
NONE 2,390
SHOF 1,636
CHOF 888
TOTAL 4,833</p>
        <p>Test
1,077
996</p>
        <p>Marathi dataset tagged as “NOT” and “HOF” for binary classification (Task 3A); “NOT”, “TIN”
and “UNT” for multi-classification (Task 3B); and “NOT”, “IND”, “GRP” and “OTH” for another
multi-classification (Task 3C).</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-3">
        <title>3.3. Preprocessing</title>
        <p>• Data Augmentation: Here, we utilize the previous year’s HASOC-ICHCL2021 data for
the binary classification along with the HASOC-ICHCL2022 dataset. We just merged
both of the datasets.</p>
        <p>Class label Training</p>
        <p>Task 3A</p>
        <p>NOT 2,034
HOF 1,069
TOTAL 3,103
Task 3B</p>
        <p>NOT 2,035
TIN 741
UNT 327
TOTAL 3,103
Task 3C</p>
        <p>NOT 2,363
IND 503
GRP 157
OTH 80
TOTAL 3,103
508
508
• Data concatenation: In preprocessing step, we concatenate tweets, comments, and
replies applying the given code6. This part is applicable for Task 1 and Task 2.
• Convert all the words in lowercase: We convert all the words into lowercase.
• Converted emojis: Here, we didn’t remove the emoji entirely; rather converted emojis
and emoticons to English text 7 as it is a Hinglish code-mix task.
• Stopwords removal: We remove English and Hindi stopwords from the dataset.
• Stemming: Stemming is used to convert the word to its root word by removing its
inflections.
• Removing unnecessary symbols and url: Remove @, , *, # , https?:// etc. from the
dataset to make the dataset noise free. Applicable for Marathi data also. .
• Label encoding: We encode Class into a unique number for each task.
– Task 1 (HASOC-ICHCL-Hinglish-German2022 binary classification) - “HOF”
to “0”, and “NOT” to “1”,
– Task 2 (HASOC-ICHCL-Hinglish2022 multiclass classification) - “NONE” to
“0”, “SHOF” to “1”, “CHOF” to “2”.
– Subtask-3A (HASOC-Marathi2022 binary classification) “NOT” to “0” and
“HOF” to “1”.
6https://github.com/hasocfire/ICHCLbaseline/tree/master/ICHCL_baseline2k22
7https://studymachinelearning.com/text-preprocessing-handle-emoji-emoticon/
– Subtask-3B (HASOC-Marathi2022 ternary classification) “NOT” to “0”, “TIN”
to “1” and “UNT” to “2”.
– Subtask-3C (HASOC-Marathi2022 four classification) “NOT” to “0”, “IND” to
“1”, “GRP” to “2” and “OTH” to “3”.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-4">
        <title>3.4. Pre-trained BERT models</title>
        <p>BERT models are trained on a large raw text (without human labeling) corpus in a self-supervised
way. Figure 2 shows the representation of the general proposed approach for all five tasks.
• mBERT8: It is pre-trained with the largest Wikipedia over 104 top languages worldwide,
including Hindi, Bengali and Marathi, using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective.
8https://huggingface.co/bert-base-multilingual-uncased</p>
        <p>For Task-1 and Task-2, we use the same mBERT architecture with a few changes (diferent
preprocessing steps only).</p>
        <p>• MahaBERT9: MahaBERT is a multilingual BERT (bert-base-multilingual-cased) model
ifnetuned on L3Cube-MahaCorpus and other publicly available Marathi monolingual
datasets.</p>
        <p>For Subtask-3A, Subtask-3B and Subtask-3C, we use the same MahaBERT architecture.</p>
        <p>Due to memory and GPU issues, we did several experiments but with the same
hyperparameter combination (Table 3), and we noticed that smaller batch sizes help better fine-tuning.</p>
        <p>Hyperparameter</p>
        <p>Learning-rate</p>
        <p>Epochs
Max seq length</p>
        <p>Batch size</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>4. Result</title>
      <p>Here, table 5 shows the result; Macro F1_Score, precision and recall measures the performance.
We put all the tasks’ results as shown on the leaderboard. We train the whole dataset and predict
classes for the given test set. We also tested other pre-trained BERT models but submitted only
one run, giving the best result (we didn’t submit other runs as they did not perform well).</p>
      <p>Task
Task 1 ICHCL Binary Classification
Task 2 ICHCL Multiclass CLassification
Task 3A Marathi
Task 3B Marathi
Task 3C Marathi</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>5. Conclusion</title>
      <p>In this paper, five task performances are presented. In Hinglish-German, our task is to classify a
tweet, comment, and reply pair is HOF or NOT (Task 1). The same pair from the dataset conveys
SHOF or CHOF or NONE (Task 2). In Marathi, texts are HOF or NOT (Subtask-3A). In multiclass
9https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/marathi-bert
classification, text is NOT, TIN or UNT (Subtask-3B). The last task in Marathi is to classify the
text in NOT or IND or GRP or OTH (Subtask-3C). We utilized several variants of pre-trained
BERT models but submitted only one run. We notice a smaller batch size gives a better result
than a larger batch size. Converting emojis and emoticons to text help to increase performance.
More experiments on preprocessing are needed to increase the models’ performance. Here,
data augmentation plays a good role; otherwise, we use a common state-of-the-art baseline
transformer-based pre-trained BERT model. We applied the same data augmentation approach
for the Marathi dataset, i.e., we merged the previous year’s HASOC-Marathi data but couldn’t
submit it on time; otherwise, it also performed well.
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