UPB at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Enhancing UNITER with Image Sentiment and Graph Convolutional Networks for Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification

Andrei Paraschiv, Mihai Dascalu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel


Abstract
In recent times, the detection of hate-speech, offensive, or abusive language in online media has become an important topic in NLP research due to the exponential growth of social media and the propagation of such messages, as well as their impact. Misogyny detection, even though it plays an important part in hate-speech detection, has not received the same attention. In this paper, we describe our classification systems submitted to the SemEval-2022 Task 5: MAMI - Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification. The shared task aimed to identify misogynous content in a multi-modal setting by analysing meme images together with their textual captions. To this end, we propose two models based on the pre-trained UNITER model, one enhanced with an image sentiment classifier, whereas the second leverages a Vocabulary Graph Convolutional Network (VGCN). Additionally, we explore an ensemble using the aforementioned models. Our best model reaches an F1-score of 71.4% in Sub-task A and 67.3% for Sub-task B positioning our team in the upper third of the leaderboard. We release the code and experiments for our models on GitHub.
Anthology ID:
2022.semeval-1.85
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
618–625
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.85
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.85
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Cite (ACL):
Andrei Paraschiv, Mihai Dascalu, and Dumitru-Clementin Cercel. 2022. UPB at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Enhancing UNITER with Image Sentiment and Graph Convolutional Networks for Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 618–625, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
UPB at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Enhancing UNITER with Image Sentiment and Graph Convolutional Networks for Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification (Paraschiv et al., SemEval 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.85.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.85.mp4
Code
 readerbench/semeval-2022-task-5
Data
Hateful MemesHateful Memes Challenge