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Internet memes, channels for humor, social commentary, and cultural expression, are increasingly used to spread toxic messages. Studies on the computational analyses of toxic memes have significantly grown over the past five years, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani , Erik Tjong Kim Sang , Davide Ceolin

Offensive or antagonistic language targeted at individuals and social groups based on their personal characteristics (also known as cyber hate speech or cyberhate) has been frequently posted and widely circulated viathe World Wide Web. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Wafa Alorainy , Pete Burnap , Han Liu , Matthew Williams

Hateful memes often require compositional multimodal reasoning: the image and text may appear benign in isolation, yet their interaction conveys harmful intent. Although thinking-based multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi , Mucahid Kutlu , Ali Ezzat Shahroor , Abul Hasnat , Firoj Alam

Memes, which rapidly disseminate personal opinions and positions across the internet, also pose significant challenges in propagating social bias and prejudice. This study presents a novel approach to detecting harmful memes, particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jingtao Cao , Zheng Zhang , Hongru Wang , Bin Liang , Hao Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Memes have gained popularity as a means to share visual ideas through the Internet and social media by mixing text, images and videos, often for humorous purposes. Research enabling automated analysis of memes has gained attention in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiaoyu Guo , Jing Ma , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Given the massive market of advertising and the sharply increasing online multimedia content (such as videos), it is now fashionable to promote advertisements (ads) together with the multimedia content. It is exhausted to find relevant ads…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Huaizheng Zhang , Yong Luo , Qiming Ai , Yonggang Wen

As a multimodal medium combining images and text, memes frequently convey implicit harmful content through metaphors and humor, rendering the detection of harmful memes a complex and challenging task. Although recent studies have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hexiang Gu , Qifan Yu , Yuan Liu , Zikang Li , Saihui Hou , Jian Zhao , Zhaofeng He

The dissemination of hateful memes online has adverse effects on social media platforms and the real world. Detecting hateful memes is challenging, one of the reasons being the evolutionary nature of memes; new hateful memes can emerge by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yiting Qu , Xinlei He , Shannon Pierson , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Savvas Zannettou

We present a hierarchical neural network model called SemText to detect HTML boilerplate based on a novel semantic representation of HTML tags, class names, and text blocks. We train SemText on three published datasets of news webpages and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Hao Zhang , Jie Wang

Hateful content detection is one of the areas where deep learning can and should make a significant difference. The Hateful Memes Challenge from Facebook helps fulfill such potential by challenging the contestants to detect hateful speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yang Li , Zinc Zhang , Hutchin Huang

Huge numbers of new words emerge every day, leading to a great need for representing them with semantic meaning that is understandable to NLP systems. Sememes are defined as the minimum semantic units of human languages, the combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Wei Li , Xuancheng Ren , Damai Dai , Yunfang Wu , Houfeng Wang , Xu Sun

This paper describes MagicPai's system for SemEval 2021 Task 7, HaHackathon: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense. This task aims to detect whether the text is humorous and how humorous it is. There are four subtasks in the competition.…

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

We present a neural-network based approach to classifying online hate speech in general, as well as racist and sexist speech in particular. Using pre-trained word embeddings and max/mean pooling from simple, fully-connected transformations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Rohan Kshirsagar , Tyus Cukuvac , Kathleen McKeown , Susan McGregor

Social media is daily creating massive multimedia content with paired image and text, presenting the pressing need to automate the vision and language understanding for various multimodal classification tasks. Compared to the commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chunpu Xu , Jing Li

We introduce a method to provide vectorial representations of visual classification tasks which can be used to reason about the nature of those tasks and their relations. Given a dataset with ground-truth labels and a loss function defined…

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

This paper describes our approach for SemEval-2023 Task 3: Detecting the category, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news in a multi-lingual setup. For Subtask 1 (News Genre), we propose an ensemble of fully trained and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ben Wu , Olesya Razuvayevskaya , Freddy Heppell , João A. Leite , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

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

Detecting humor is a challenging task since words might share multiple valences and, depending on the context, the same words can be even used in offensive expressions. Neural network architectures based on Transformer obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

Modern deep neural networks remain challenging to interpret due to the opacity of their latent representations, impeding model understanding, debugging, and debiasing. Concept Embedding Models (CEMs) address this by mapping inputs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oscar Hill , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik