Table 1 Comparative summary of recent SCI/SCIE works on complaint analytics, multimodal reasoning, sentiment modelling, and toxicity detection (2022–2025).

From: A zero-shot LLM framework for multimodal grievance classification, urgency scoring, and abuse detection in civic feedback systems

Study (year)

Method/model

Modality

Novelty

Dataset/domain

Key limitations

Vairetti et al. (2023)7

Deep learning and MCDM prioritisation

Text

Hybrid ranking using operational KPIs

Service complaints (industry)

No speech support; no toxicity modelling; no zero-shot routing

Schupp et al. (2025)1

Topic mining and anomaly detection

Text

Proactive detection of recurring issues

Government helpdesk logs

Backend analytics only; no per-complaint decision logic

Kim & Park (2024)8

Materiality-based classifier

Text

Material vs. immaterial complaint modelling

Large-scale review corpus

No multimodal integration; no behavioural analysis

Liang & Wang (2024)9

Hierarchical complaint classifier

Text

Label-aware multi-branch deep network

Clinical chief-complaint data

Single-task; no sentiment or toxicity inference

Marques et al. (2023)10

Federated NLP classifier

Text

Privacy-preserving distributed training

Banking complaint logs

No multimodal reasoning; no urgency estimation

Singh et al. (2022)11

Multimodal complaint detector

Text and Image

Emotion- and sentiment-aware fusion

CESAMARD dataset

Not civic-oriented; no speech handling or routing

Singh et al. (2023)12

Bi-transformer multimodal ABSA

Text and Image

Aspect-level complaint and cause detection

Public review datasets

No urgency modelling; no toxicity analysis

Yin et al. (2025)13

PWCR speech-based complaint detector

Speech

Paralinguistic and temporal modelling

Call-centre audio

No routing; no urgency scoring; no abuse logic

Devanathan et al. (2023)14

Federated multimodal meta-learning

Text and Image

Cross-client multimodal generalisation

Distributed platforms

Complaint detection only; no toxicity or urgency components

Koto et al. (2024)18

Zero-shot sentiment via multilingual lexicon

Text

Zero-shot affect modelling across 34 languages

Multilingual corpora

No routing integration; no abuse detection

Bansal et al. (2024)23

Domain-adapted abuse classifier

Text

Regularised transformer for robustness

Six toxicity datasets

No behavioural history; no multimodal reasoning

Lee et al. (2025)24

Fairness-aware abuse detection

Text

Adversarial bias mitigation framework

Benchmark abusive-language corpora

No urgency component; not civic-specific

Nguyen et al. (2025)25

Euphemistic toxicity detector

Text

Contrastive euphemism modelling

Social media datasets

Standalone moderation; no routing or escalation integration