Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada

摘要

Detecting offensive language in social media in local languages is critical for moderating user-generated content. Thus, the field of offensive language identification for under-resourced languages like Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada is of essential importance. As user-generated content is often code-mixed and not well studied for under-resourced languages, it is imperative to create resources and conduct benchmark studies to encourage research in under-resourced Dravidian languages. We created a shared task on offensive language detection in Dravidian languages.