cs.CLMay 10, 2026

cantnlp@DravidianLangTech 2026: organic domain adaptation improves multi-class hope speech detection in Tulu

Authors: Andrew LiSidney Wong

Organizations: Lake Washington School District · University of Otago, New Zealand · Te P¯unaha Matatini, New Zealand

Abstract

This paper presents our systems and results for the Hope Speech Detection in Code-Mixed Tulu Language shared task at the Sixth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech-2026). We trained an XLM-RoBERTa-based text classification system for detecting hope speech in code-mixed Tulu social media comments. We compared this organically adapted hope speech detection model with our baseline model. On the development set, the organically adapted model outperformed the baseline system. While our submitted systems performed more modestly on the official test set, these results suggest that further adapting XLM-RoBERTa on organically collected Tulu social media text containing code-mixed and mixed-script variation can improve hope speech detection in code-mixed Tulu.

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