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XLM-RoBERTa model improves hope speech detection in Tulu

Researchers developed an XLM-RoBERTa-based system for detecting hope speech in code-mixed Tulu social media comments. Their organically adapted model showed improved performance over a baseline on a development set. While test set results were more modest, the findings indicate that adapting models on real-world Tulu social media text can enhance hope speech detection capabilities. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI's ability to detect harmful content in under-resourced, code-mixed languages.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new model adaptation for a specific language task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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XLM-RoBERTa model improves hope speech detection in Tulu

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Sidney Wong ·

    cantnlp@DravidianLangTech 2026: organic domain adaptation improves multi-class hope speech detection in Tulu

    This paper presents our systems and results for the Hope Speech Detection in Code-Mixed Tulu Language shared task at the Sixth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech-2026). We trained an XLM-RoBERTa-based text classificati…