Amrita@LT-EDI-EACL2021

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This repo contains the working code for the models submitted in the Hope Speech Detection in English-Malayalam code-mixed shared task in LT-EDI-EACL2021 . We achieved a team rank of 9(with 0.73 f1-score) of the 31 participating teams.

Models

• BiLSTM with attention layer both word2vec and fasttext word embeddedings were used

• CNN - A 1D CNN model

• Optuna is used for hyperparameter tuning