Xiaojian Zhuang


2025

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An Overview of the Misogyny Meme Detection Shared Task for Chinese Social Media
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi | Rahul Ponnusamy | Ping Du | Xiaojian Zhuang | Saranya Rajiakodi | Paul Buitelaar | Premjith B | Bhuvaneswari Sivagnanam | Anshid K A | Sk Lavanya
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion

The increasing prevalence of misogynistic content in online memes has raised concerns about their impact on digital discourse. The culture specific images and informal usage of text in the memes present considerable challenges for the automatic detection systems, especially in low-resource languages. While previous shared tasks have addressed misogyny detection in English and several European languages, misogynistic meme detection in the Chinese has remained largely unexplored. To address this gap, we introduced a shared task focused on binary classification of Chinese language memes as misogynistic or non-misogynistic. The task featured memes collected from the Chinese social media and annotated by native speakers. A total of 45 teams registered, with 8 teams submitting predictions from their multimodal models integrating textual and visual features through diverse fusion strategies. The best-performing system achieved a macro F1-score of 0.93035, highlighting the effectiveness of lightweight pretrained encoder fusion. This system used the Chinese BERT and DenseNet-121 for text and image feature extraction, respectively. A feedforward network was trained as a classifier using the features obtained by concatenating text and image features.