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    Conversational Hate-Offensive detection in Code-Mixed Hindi-English Tweets
    (CEUR-WS, 2021) Rajalakshmi, R.; Srivarshan, S.; Mattins, F.; Kaarthik, E.; Seshadri, P.; Anand Kumar, M.
    Hate speech in social media has increased due to the increased use of online forums for sharing the opinion among the people. Especially, people prefer expressing the views in their native language while posting such objectionable contents in many social media platforms. It is a challenging task to have an automated system to identify such hate and offensive tweets in many regional languages due to the rich linguistics nature. Recently, this problem has become too complicated, due to the use of multi-lingual and code-mixed tweets. The code-mixed data includes the mixing of two languages on the granular level. A word that might not be a part of either language may be found in the data. To address the above challenges in Hindi-English tweets, we propose an efficient method by combining the IndicBERT with an effective ensemble based method. We have applied different methodologies to find a way to accurately classify whether the given tweet is considered to be Hate Speech or Not in code-mixed Hinglish dataset. Three different models namely, IndicBERT, XLM Roberta and Masked LM were used to embed the tweet data. Then various classification methods such as Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Ensembling and Neural Networks based method were applied to perform classification. From extensive experiments on the data set, embedding the code-mixed data with IndicBERT and Ensembling was found to be the best method, which resulted in an macro F1-score of 62.53%. This work was submitted to the shared task of the HASOC 2021 [1] [2] Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages Competition by team TNLP. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.