SOLD: Sinhala offensive language dataset: SOLD: Sinhala offensive language dataset: T. Ranasinghe et al.

The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cyber-bullying, is a global phenomenon. This has sparked interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) communities, motivating the development of various systems trained to detect potentially har...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 297 - 338
Autores principales: Ranasinghe, Tharindu, Anuradha, Isuri, Premasiri, Damith, Silva, Kanishka, Hettiarachchi, Hansi, Uyangodage, Lasitha, Zampieri, Marcos
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2025
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        Low-resource languages
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