Homophobia and transphobia detection for low-resourced languages in social media comments

Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Rahul Ponnusamy, Ruba Priyadharshini, Paul Buitelaar, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

Abstract: Highlights•Fine-grained dataset for homophobia and transphobia detection in Malayalam and Hindi.•Most predictive features in machine learning models are analyzed.•Pre-trained models to predict instances of homophobia and transphobia comments.•Cross-lingual transfer learning to predict instances of homophobia and transphobia.