Silver@CASE2025: Detection of Hate Speech, Targets, Humor, and Stance in Marginalized Movement

Rohan Mainali, Neha Aryal, Sweta Poudel, Anupraj Acharya, Rabin Thapa


Abstract
Memes, a multimodal form of communication, have emerged as a popular mode of expression in online discourse, particularly among marginalized groups. With multiple meanings, memes often combine satire, irony, and nuanced language, presenting particular challenges to machines in detecting hate speech, humor, stance, and the target of hostility. This paper presents a comparison of unimodal and multimodal solutions to address all four subtasks of the CASE 2025 Shared Task on Multimodal Hate, Humor, and Stance Detection. We compare transformer-based text models (BERT, RoBERTa) with CNN-based vision models (DenseNet, EfficientNet), and multimodal fusion methods, such as CLIP. We find that multimodal systems consistently outperform the unimodal baseline, with CLIP performing the best on all subtasks with a macro F1 score of 78% in sub-task A, 56% in sub-task B, 59% in sub-task C, and 72% in sub-task D.
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2025.case-1.10
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Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts
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September
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2025
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Surendrabikram Thapa
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CASE | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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83–90
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Rohan Mainali, Neha Aryal, Sweta Poudel, Anupraj Acharya, and Rabin Thapa. 2025. Silver@CASE2025: Detection of Hate Speech, Targets, Humor, and Stance in Marginalized Movement. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Texts, pages 83–90, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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