Findings of the CONSTRAINT 2022 Shared Task on Detecting the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim in Memes
Published in Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations (CONSTRAINT22), ACL’22, 2022
Recommended citation: Shivam Sharma, Tharun Suresh, Atharva Kulkarni, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty. 2022. Findings of the CONSTRAINT 2022 Shared Task on Detecting the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim in Memes. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations, pages 1–11, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.constraint-1.1
The CONSTRAINT 2022 Workshop shared task focused on understanding harmful memes by labeling the roles of entities within them as hero, villain, victim, or none. We curated the HVVMemes dataset, containing 7000 memes related to COVID-19 and US Politics. Despite attracting 105 participants, only 6 submissions were made, with the top submission achieving an F1-score of 58.67.
Recommended citation: Shivam Sharma, Tharun Suresh, Atharva Kulkarni, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty. 2022. Findings of the CONSTRAINT 2022 Shared Task on Detecting the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim in Memes. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations, pages 1–11, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.