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Social media is abundant in visual and textual information presented together or in isolation. Memes are the most popular form, belonging to the former class. In this paper, we present our approaches for the Memotion Analysis problem as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Vishal Keswani , Sakshi Singh , Suryansh Agarwal , Ashutosh Modi

Pre-trained language model word representation, such as BERT, have been extremely successful in several Natural Language Processing tasks significantly improving on the state-of-the-art. This can largely be attributed to their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wah Meng Lim , Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Offensive language detection is one of the most challenging problem in the natural language processing field, being imposed by the rising presence of this phenomenon in online social media. This paper describes our Transformer-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mircea-Adrian Tanase , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Costin-Gabriel Chiru

Amid a tidal wave of misinformation flooding social media during elections and crises, extensive research has been conducted on misinformation detection, primarily focusing on text-based or image-based approaches. However, only a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gautam Kishore Shahi

Women are twice as likely as men to face online harassment due to their gender. Despite recent advances in multimodal content moderation, most approaches still overlook the social dynamics behind this phenomenon, where perpetrators…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Paolo Italiani , David Gimeno-Gomez , Luca Ragazzi , Gianluca Moro , Paolo Rosso

With the online proliferation of hate speech, there is an urgent need for systems that can detect such harmful content. In this paper, We present the machine learning models developed for the Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI) shared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Punyajoy Saha , Binny Mathew , Pawan Goyal , Animesh Mukherjee

Social network platforms are generally used to share positive, constructive, and insightful content. However, in recent times, people often get exposed to objectionable content like threat, identity attacks, hate speech, insults, obscene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar

Manipulative and misleading news have become a commodity for some online news outlets and these news have gained a significant impact on the global mindset of people. Propaganda is a frequently employed manipulation method having as goal to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Andrei Paraschiv , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

We present the findings of our participation in the SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS) task, a shared task on offensive language (sexism) detection on English Gab and Reddit dataset. We investigated the…

In recent years, the widespread use of social media has led to an increase in the generation of toxic and offensive content on online platforms. In response, social media platforms have worked on developing automatic detection methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptanu Sarkar , Marcos Zampieri , Alexander Ororbia

In this paper we present two deep-learning systems that competed at SemEval-2018 Task 3 "Irony detection in English tweets". We design and ensemble two independent models, based on recurrent neural networks (Bi-LSTM), which operate at the…

This paper presents our system for SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization, which identifies polarized social media content in 22 languages through three subtasks: binary detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fengze Guo , Yue Chang

Sexism in online media comments is a pervasive challenge that often manifests subtly, complicating moderation efforts as interpretations of what constitutes sexism can vary among individuals. We study monolingual and multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Florian Bremm , Patrick Gustav Blaneck , Tobias Bornheim , Niklas Grieger , Stephan Bialonski

In this paper we present a benchmark dataset generated as part of a project for automatic identification of misogyny within online content, which focuses in particular on memes. The benchmark here described is composed of 800 memes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Francesca Gasparini , Giulia Rizzi , Aurora Saibene , Elisabetta Fersini

Sexism has become widespread on social media and in online conversation. To help address this issue, the fifth Sexism Identification in Social Networks (EXIST) challenge is initiated at CLEF 2025. Among this year's international benchmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Roberto Labadie-Tamayo , Adrian Jaques Böck , Djordje Slijepčević , Xihui Chen , Andreas Babic , Matthias Zeppelzauer

Memes are popular in the modern world and are distributed primarily for entertainment. However, harmful ideologies such as misogyny can be propagated through innocent-looking memes. The detection and understanding of why a meme is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kushal Kanwar , Dushyant Singh Chauhan , Gopendra Vikram Singh , Asif Ekbal

In the past few years, the meme has become a new way of communication on the Internet. As memes are the images with embedded text, it can quickly spread hate, offence and violence. Classifying memes are very challenging because of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Eftekhar Hossain , Omar Sharif , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

The nuisance of misinformation and fake news has escalated many folds since the advent of online social networks. Human consciousness and decision-making capabilities are negatively influenced by manipulated, fabricated, biased or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

This paper describes our system that has been submitted to SemEval-2018 Task 1: Affect in Tweets (AIT) to solve five subtasks. We focus on modeling both sentence and word level representations of emotion inside texts through large distantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ji Ho Park , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

Online misogyny has become an increasing worry for Arab women who experience gender-based online abuse on a daily basis. Misogyny automatic detection systems can assist in the prohibition of anti-women Arabic toxic content. Developing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Hala Mulki , Bilal Ghanem