Overview of the 2023 ICON Shared Task on Gendered Abuse Detection in
  Indic Languages
Aatman Vaidya Arnav Arora Aditya Joshi Tarunima Prabhakar
This paper reports the findings of the ICON 2023 on Gendered Abuse Detection
in Indic Languages. The shared task deals with the detection of gendered abuse
in online text. The shared task was conducted as a part of ICON 2023, based on
a novel dataset in Hindi, Tamil and the Indian dialect of English. The
participants were given three subtasks with the train dataset consisting of
approximately 6500 posts sourced from Twitter. For the test set, approximately
1200 posts were provided. The shared task received a total of 9 registrations.
The best F-1 scores are 0.616 for subtask 1, 0.572 for subtask 2 and, 0.616 and
0.582 for subtask 3. The paper contains examples of hateful content owing to
its topic.