EACL 2021 : DravidianLangTech : Program

(All timings mentioned below are in CET)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
09:30 - 10:00
Keynote: John P McCrae (Under-resourced Languages)
Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway
Co-Chair: Navya Jose, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala

10:00 - 11:00
Paper Session I
Chair: M Anand Kumar, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

10:00 - 10:15
Tamil Lyrics Corpus: Analysis and Experiments
Dhivya Chinnappa1 and Praveenraj Dhandapani2
1Thomson Reuters, 2Intellect Design Arena Ltd
10:15 - 10:30
DOSA: Dravidian Code-Mixed Offensive Span Identification Dataset
Manikandan Ravikiran and Subbiah Annamalai
TeamDL-MLSG, OMSCS Program
10:30 - 10:45
Towards Offensive Language Identification for Dravidian Languages
Siva Sai and Yashvardhan Sharma
Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India.
10:45 - 11:00
Sentiment Classification of Code-Mixed Tweets using Bi-Directional RNN and Language Tags
Sainik Mahata1, Dipankar Das1, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay2
1Jadavpur University, 2JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, NIT SILCHAR
11:00 - 11:30
Break

11:30 - 13:00
Paper Session II
Chair: Elizabeth Sherly
Co-Chair: Navya Jose, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala

11:30 - 11:45
Offensive language identification in Dravidian code mixed social media text
Sunil Saumya1, Abhinav Kumar2, Jyoti Prakash Singh2
1INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DHARWAD, 2National Institute of Technology Patna
11:45 - 12:00
Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Code Mixed Data
Asrita Venkata Mandalam1 and Yashvardhan Sharma2
1BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, 2Birla Institute of Technology and Science
12:00 - 12:15
Unsupervised Machine Translation On Dravidian Languages
Sai Koneru, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues
Maastricht University
12:15 - 12:30
Graph Convolutional Networks with Multi-headed Attention for Code-Mixed Sentiment Analysis
Suman Dowlagar and Radhika Mamidi
Language Technologies Research Center, IIIT - Hyderabad.
12:30 - 12:45
Task-Specific Pre-Training and Cross Lingual Transfer for Sentiment Analysis in Dravidian Code-Switched Languages
Akshat Gupta1, Sai Krishna Rallabandi2, Alan W Black2
1CMU, 2Carnegie Mellon University
12:45 - 13:00
Analysis of Uvama Urubugal in Tamil Sangam Literatures
SUBALALITHA CN
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00
Paper Session III
Chair: Parameswari Krishnamurthy, University of Hyderabad
Co-Chair: Shardul Suryawanshi, National University of Ireland Galway

14:00 - 14:15
Task-Oriented Dialog Systems for Dravidian Languages
Tushar Kanakagiri and Karthik Radhakrishnan
Carnegie Mellon University
14:15 - 14:30
A Survey on Paralinguistics in Tamil Speech Processing
Anosha Ignatius and Uthayasanker Thayasivam
University of Moratuwa
14:30 - 14:45
Is this Enough?-Evaluation of Malayalam Wordnet
Nandu Chandran Nair, Maria-chiara Giangregorio, Fausto Giunchiglia
University of Trento
14:45 - 15:00
LA-SACo: A Study of Learning Approaches for Sentiments Analysis inCode-Mixing Texts
Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi and H L Shashirekha
Mangalore University
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster-I - Poster Session-I-Shared Task Papers
Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway
Co-Chair: Shubankar Banerjee, National University of Ireland Galway

15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - Findings of the Shared Task on Machine Translation in Dravidian languages
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi1, Ruba Priyadharshini2, Shubhanker Banerjee3, Richard Saldanha4, John P. McCrae5, Anand Kumar M4, Parameswari Krishnamurthy6, Melvin Johnson7
1Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, 2ULTRA Arts and Science College, 3National university of Ireland Galway, 4National Institute of Technology Karnataka, 5Insight Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway, 6Assistant Professor, 7Google USA
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - Findings of the Shared Task on Troll Meme Classification in Tamil
Shardul Suryawanshi1 and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi2
1Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, 2Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - Findings of the Shared Task on Offensive Language Identification in Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi1, Ruba Priyadharshini2, Navya Jose3, Anand Kumar M4, Thomas Mandl5, Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan6, Rahul Ponnusamy7, Hariharan R L4, John P. McCrae8, Elizabeth Sherly9
1Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, 2ULTRA Arts and Science College, 3Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, 4National Institute of Technology Karnataka, 5University of Hildesheim, 6Student, IIITMK College, 7Master degree, IIITMK College, 8Insight Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway, 9Dr
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - GX@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Multilingual Neural Machine Translation and Back-translation
Wanying Xie
Beijing Language and Culture University
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - OFFLangOne@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transformers with the Class Balanced Loss for Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Code-Mixed text.
Suman Dowlagar and Radhika Mamidi
Language Technologies Research Center, IIIT - Hyderabad.
15:00 - 16:00
15:00 - 16:00
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - JudithJeyafreedaAndrew@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021:Offensive language detection for Dravidian Code-mixed YouTube comments
Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew
Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, ENSICAEN, CNRS, GREYC, 14000 Caen, France
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - professionals@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Malayalam Offensive Language Identification - A Minimalistic Approach
Srinath Nair and Dolton Fernandes
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - UVCE-IIITT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Tamil Troll Meme Classification: You need to Pay more Attention
Siddhanth U Hegde1, Adeep Hande2, Ruba Priyadharshini3, Sajeetha Thavareesan4, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi5
1University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, 2Indian Institute of Information Technology,Tiruchirappalli, 3ULTRA Arts and Science College, 4Lecturer, 5Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - IIITT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transfer Learning for Offensive Language Detection in Dravidian Languages
Konthala Yasaswini1, Karthik Puranik2, Adeep Hande3, Ruba Priyadharshini4, Sajeetha Thavareesan5, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi6
1Indian Institute of Information Technology Tiruchirapalli, 2Indian Institute of Information Technology Tiruchirappalli, 3Indian Institute of Information Technology,Tiruchirappalli, 4ULTRA Arts and Science College, 5Lecturer, 6Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - Hypers@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive language identification in Dravidian code-mixed YouTube Comments and Posts
Charangan Vasantharajan and Uthayasanker Thayasivam
University of Moratuwa at Colombo
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - HUB@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Identify and Classify Offensive Text in Multilingual Code Mixing in Social Media
Bo Huang1 and Yang Bai2
1YunNanUniversity, 2Yunnan University
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - HUB@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme Classification for Tamil Text-Image Fusion
Bo Huang1 and Yang Bai2
1YunNanUniversity, 2Yunnan University
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - IIITK@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification and Meme Classification in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
Nikhil Ghanghor1, Parameswari Krishnamurthy2, Sajeetha Thavareesan3, Ruba Priyadharshini4, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi5
1IIIT Kottayam, 2Assistant Professor, 3Lecturer, 4ULTRA Arts and Science College, 5Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
15:00 - 16:00
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - CUSATNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021:Language Agnostic Classification of Offensive Content in Tweets
Sara Renjit and Sumam Mary Idicula
Department of Computer Science, CUSAT
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - IIIT_DWD@EACL2021: Identifying Troll Meme in Tamil using a hybrid deep learning approach
Ankit Kumar Mishra1 and SUNIL SAUMYA2
1Magadh University, 2INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DHARWAD
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - Amrita_CEN_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Deep Learning-based Offensive Language Identification in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada
Sreelakshmi K1, Premjith B2, Soman KP1
1Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India, 2Center for Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - NLP-CUET@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Detection from Multilingual Code-Mixed Text using Transformers
Omar Sharif1, Eftekhar Hossain2, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque1
1Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, 2Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology
15:00 - 16:00
Session Poster I - IRLAB-DAIICT@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Neural Machine Translation
Raj Prajapati, Vedant Vijay Parikh, Prasenjit Majumder
DA-IICT
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster-II - Poster Session-II-Shared Task Papers
Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway
Co-Chair: Shardul Suryawanshi, National University of Ireland Galway

16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - Hate-Alert@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Ensembling strategies for Transformer-based Offensive language Detection
Debjoy Saha1, Naman Paharia2, Debajit Chakraborty3, Punyajoy Saha4, Animesh Mukherjee5
1Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 3Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur, 4Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 5IIT Kharagpur
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - TrollMeta@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme classification using deep learning
Manoj Balaji J1 and Chinmaya HS2
1BITS, Pilani, 2Cambridge Institute of Technology
16:00 - 17:00
16:00 - 17:00
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - Bitions@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Ensemble of Multilingual Language Models with Pseudo Labeling for offence Detection in Dravidian Languages
Debapriya Tula1, Prathyush Potluri2, Shreyas MS1, Sumanth Doddapaneni2, Pranjal Sahu1, Rohan Sukumaran3, Parth Patwa1
1Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, 2Independent Researcher, 3Applied Research, Swiggy
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - NLP-CUET@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Investigating Visual and Textual Features to Identify Trolls from Multimodal Social Media Memes
Eftekhar Hossain1, Omar Sharif2, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque2
1Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, 2Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - SJ_AJ@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Task-Adaptive Pre-Training of Multilingual BERT models for Offensive Language Identification
Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi1 and Akshat Gupta2
1Carnegie Mellon University, 2CMU
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - SSNCSE_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification on Multilingual Code Mixing Text
Bharathi B1 and Agnusimmaculate Silvia A2
1SSN College of Engineering, 2Sri Siva Subramaniya Nadar College of Engineering
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - JUNLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Langauges
Avishek Garain, Atanu Mandal, Sudip Kumar Naskar
Jadavpur University
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - MUCS@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021:COOLI-Code-Mixing Offensive Language Identification
Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Aparna B K, H L Shashirekha
Mangalore University
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - indicnlp@kgp at DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages
Kushal Kedia and Abhilash Nandy
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - SSNCSE_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme classification for Tamil using machine learning approach
Bharathi B1 and Agnusimmaculate Silvia A2
SSN College of Engineering1, 2Sri Siva Subramaniya Nadar college of Engineering
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - MUCS@ - Machine Translation for Dravidian Languages using Stacked Long Short Term Memory
Asha Hegde, Ibrahim Gashaw, Shashirekha H.L.
Mangalore University
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - OffTamil@DravideanLangTech-EASL2021: Offensive Language Identification in Tamil Text
Disne Sivalingam1 and Sajeetha Thavareesan2
1Assistant Lecturer, 2Lecturer
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - Codewithzichao@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Exploring Multimodal Transformers for Meme Classification in Tamil Language
Zichao Li
School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University
16:00 - 17:00
Session Poster II - DLRG@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Transformer based approachfor Offensive Language Identification on Code-Mixed Tamil
Ratnavel Rajalakshmi1, Yashwant Reddy2, Lokesh Kumar3
1Vellore Institute of Technology, 2Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 3Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
17:00 - 17:30
Keynote: Vasu Renganathan (Dravidian Languages)
Chair: M Anand Kumar, National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Co-Chair: Navya Jose, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala

17:30 - 18:00
Closing Remarks
Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway