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Hate speech detection in Devanagari-scripted social media memes presents compounded challenges: multimodal content structure, script-specific linguistic complexity, and extreme data scarcity in low-resource settings. This paper presents our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Samir Wagle , Reewaj Khanal , Abiral Adhikari

The SemEval task on Argument Reasoning in Civil Procedure is challenging in that it requires understanding legal concepts and inferring complex arguments. Currently, most Large Language Models (LLM) excelling in the legal realm are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Odysseas S. Chlapanis , Ion Androutsopoulos , Dimitrios Galanis

In recent years , there has been an upsurge in a new form of entertainment medium called memes. These memes although seemingly innocuous have transcended onto the boundary of online harassment against women and created an unwanted bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Harshvardhan Srivastava

Propaganda spreads the ideology and beliefs of like-minded people, brainwashing their audiences, and sometimes leading to violence. SemEval 2020 Task-11 aims to design automated systems for news propaganda detection. Task-11 consists of two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rajaswa Patil , Somesh Singh , Swati Agarwal

We present SemEval-2024 Task 10, a shared task centred on identifying emotions and finding the rationale behind their flips within monolingual English and Hindi-English code-mixed dialogues. This task comprises three distinct subtasks -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Shivani Kumar , Md Shad Akhtar , Erik Cambria , Tanmoy Chakraborty

We describe our approach for SemEval-2021 task 6 on detection of persuasion techniques in multimodal content (memes). Our system combines pretrained multimodal models (CLIP) and chained classifiers. Also, we propose to enrich the data by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Erfan Ghadery , Damien Sileo , Marie-Francine Moens

This paper describes our contribution to SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines. Here we present a method based on a deep neural network. In recent years, quite some attention has been devoted to humor production and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Rida Miraj , Masaki Aono

This research presents our team KEIS@JUST participation at SemEval-2020 Task 12 which represents shared task on multilingual offensive language. We participated in all the provided languages for all subtasks except sub-task-A for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saja Khaled Tawalbeh , Mahmoud Hammad , Mohammad AL-Smadi

This paper introduces the SemEval-2021 shared task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning (ReCAM). This shared task is designed to help evaluate the ability of machines in representing and understanding abstract concepts. Given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Boyuan Zheng , Xiaoyu Yang , Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhenhua Ling , Quan Liu , Si Wei , Xiaodan Zhu

This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2026 Task 2. The task requires modeling both current affect and short-term affective change in chronologically ordered user-generated texts. We explore three complementary approaches: (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Darya Hryhoryeva , Amaia Zurinaga , Hamidreza Jamalabadi , Iryna Gurevych

This paper describes our submission to subtask a and b of SemEval-2020 Task 4. For subtask a, we use a ALBERT based model with improved input form to pick out the common sense statement from two statement candidates. For subtask b, we use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shilei Liu , Yu Guo , Bochao Li , Feiliang Ren

In this paper, we describe the PUM team's entry to the SemEval-2020 Task 12. Creating our solution involved leveraging two well-known pretrained models used in natural language processing: BERT and XLNet, which achieve state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Piotr Janiszewski , Mateusz Skiba , Urszula Walińska

The growing popularity and applications of sentiment analysis of social media posts has naturally led to sentiment analysis of posts written in multiple languages, a practice known as code-switching. While recent research into code-switched…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Frances Adriana Laureano De Leon , Florimond Guéniat , Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Memes are a widely popular tool for web users to express their thoughts using visual metaphors. Understanding memes requires recognizing and interpreting visual metaphors with respect to the text inside or around the meme, often while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 EunJeong Hwang , Vered Shwartz

Question answering from semi-structured tables can be seen as a semantic parsing task and is significant and practical for pushing the boundary of natural language understanding. Existing research mainly focuses on understanding contents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiaoyi Ruan , Meizhi Jin , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo , Mengyuan Zhou

The goal of visual word sense disambiguation is to find the image that best matches the provided description of the word's meaning. It is a challenging problem, requiring approaches that combine language and image understanding. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sławomir Dadas

Comparing human and model performance offers a valuable perspective for understanding the strengths and limitations of embedding models, highlighting where they succeed and where they fail to capture meaning and nuance. However, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Adnan El Assadi , Isaac Chung , Roman Solomatin , Niklas Muennighoff , Kenneth Enevoldsen

This paper describes the system designed by ERNIE Team which achieved the first place in SemEval-2020 Task 10: Emphasis Selection For Written Text in Visual Media. Given a sentence, we are asked to find out the most important words as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhengjie Huang , Shikun Feng , Weiyue Su , Xuyi Chen , Shuohuan Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Xuan Ouyang , Yu Sun

An increasingly common expression of online hate speech is multimodal in nature and comes in the form of memes. Designing systems to automatically detect hateful content is of paramount importance if we are to mitigate its undesirable…

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha