# HASOC-2023 Task 4 (FIRE 2023): Annihilate Hates

## Task objective:
The objective of the task is to detect hate speech in Bengali, Bodo, and Assamese languages. It is a binary classification task. Each dataset (for the three languages) consists of a list of sentences with their corresponding class (hate or offensive (HOF) or not hate (NOT)). Data is primarily collected from Twitter, Facebook, or youtube comments. The Macro F1 score will be the yardstick of the task. Team rank will be determined based on the Macro F1 score.

## Run submission guidelines:
- Submission should be in a CSV file. 
- CSV file must contain S. No. and task_1 column.
- DO NOT SHUFFLE ROWS ON THE TEST SET.

### For more details, participants can refer to

Hate Speech Detection in Hindi, Marathi and Bengali: https://aclanthology.org/2022.paclic-1.94.pdf
Assamese Hate Speech Detection: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10183497/

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