ASOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Arabic Memes

Yasser Alhabashi, Abdullah Alharbi, Samar Ahmad, Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Lahouari Ghouti, Anis Koubaa


Abstract
This paper describes our participation in the ArAIEval Shared Task 2024, focusing on Task 2C, which challenges participants to detect propagandistic elements in multimodal Arabic memes. The challenge involves analyzing both the textual and visual components of memes to identify underlying propagandistic messages. Our approach integrates the capabilities of MARBERT and ResNet50, top-performing pre-trained models for text and image processing, respectively. Our system architecture combines these models through a fusion layer that integrates and processes the extracted features, creating a comprehensive representation that is more effective in detecting nuanced propaganda. Our proposed system achieved significant success, placing second with an F1 score of 0.7987.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.46
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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473–477
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.46
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.46
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Yasser Alhabashi, Abdullah Alharbi, Samar Ahmad, Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Lahouari Ghouti, and Anis Koubaa. 2024. ASOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Arabic Memes. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 473–477, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ASOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Arabic Memes (Alhabashi et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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