MalHate : Hate Speech Detection in Malayalam Regional Language

Hate speech is a deceptive problem on social media and its impact on society is quite prominent and striking. As part of regulatory measures, analysis on them has been active research in the past recent years. Social media is a tool on the common man’s hand hence the use of native language is quite often. Thus we find utmost importance to be given to regional language analysis as well. There are different approaches proposed by researchers from time to time for Hate Speech analysis. In this research, we are focusing on a particular regional language, Malayalam for Vernacular Hate Speech Detection. We have analysed using the deep learning techniques and achieved the best F1 score 0.85 for pure malayalam dataset.