UFAL-ULD at BLP-2023 Task 1: Violence Detection in Bangla Text
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atul Ojha, Ondřej Dušek · 2023
In this paper, we present UFAL-ULD team's system, desinged as a part of the BLP Shared Task 1: Violence Inciting Text Detection (VITD).This task aims to classify text, with a particular challenge of identifying incitement to violence into Direct, Indirect or Nonviolence levels.We experimented with several pre-trained sequence classification models, including XLM-RoBERTa, BanglaBERT, Bangla BERT Base, and Multilingual BERT.Our best-performing model was based on the XLM-RoBERTa-base architecture, which outperformed the baseline models.Our system was ranked 20 th among the 27 teams that participated in the task.