Rodrigo Francisco Román-Godínez
2023
Ometeotl@Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection 2023: Hate Speech and Text-Image Correlation Detection in Real Life Memes Using Pre-Trained BERT Models over Text
Jesus Armenta-Segura
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César Jesús Núñez-Prado
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Grigori Olegovich Sidorov
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Alexander Gelbukh
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Rodrigo Francisco Román-Godínez
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
Hate speech detection during times of war has become crucial in recent years, as evident with the recent Russo-Ukrainian war. In this paper, we present our submissions for both subtasks from the Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detec- tion contest at CASE 2023, RANLP 2023. We used pre-trained BERT models in both submis- sion, achieving a F1 score of 0.809 in subtask A, and F1 score of 0.567 in subtask B. In the first subtask, our result was not far from the first place, which led us to realize the lower impact of images in real-life memes about feel- ings, when compared with the impact of text. However, we observed a higher importance of images when targeting hateful feelings towards a specific entity. The source code to reproduce our results can be found at the github repository https://github.com/JesusASmx/OmeteotlAtCASE2023