TeamX@DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: A Comparative Analysis for Troll-Based Meme Classification

Rabindra Nath Nandi, Firoj Alam, Preslav Nakov

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Abstract

The spread of fake news, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and harmful content online raised concerns among social media platforms, government agencies, policymakers, and society as a whole. This is because such harmful or abusive content leads to several consequences to people such as physical, emotional, relational, and financial. Among different harmful content trolling-based online content is one of them, where the idea is to post a message that is provocative, offensive, or menacing with an intent to mislead the audience. The content can be textual, visual, a combination of both, or a meme. In this study, we provide a comparative analysis of troll-based memes classification using the textual, visual, and multimodal content. We report several interesting findings in terms of code-mixed text, multimodal setting, and combining an additional dataset, which shows improvements over the majority baseline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDravidianLangTech 2022 - 2nd Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsBharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly, Sinnathamby Mahesan
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages79-85
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917346
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2nd Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop, DravidianLangTech 2022 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 26 May 2022 → …

Publication series

NameDravidianLangTech 2022 - 2nd Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop, DravidianLangTech 2022
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period26/05/22 → …

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