SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor!

Chhavi Sharma, Deepesh Bhageria, William Scott, Srinivas PYKL, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Viswanath Pulabaigari, Björn Gambäck


Abstract
Information on social media comprises of various modalities such as textual, visual and audio. NLP and Computer Vision communities often leverage only one prominent modality in isolation to study social media. However, computational processing of Internet memes needs a hybrid approach. The growing ubiquity of Internet memes on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter further suggests that we can not ignore such multimodal content anymore. To the best of our knowledge, there is not much attention towards meme emotion analysis. The objective of this proposal is to bring the attention of the research community towards the automatic processing of Internet memes. The task Memotion analysis released approx 10K annotated memes- with human annotated labels namely sentiment(positive, negative, neutral), type of emotion(sarcastic,funny,offensive, motivation) and their corresponding intensity. The challenge consisted of three subtasks: sentiment (positive, negative, and neutral) analysis of memes,overall emotion (humor, sarcasm, offensive, and motivational) classification of memes, and classifying intensity of meme emotion. The best performances achieved were F1 (macro average) scores of 0.35, 0.51 and 0.32, respectively for each of the three subtasks.
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2020.semeval-1.99
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
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December
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2020
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Barcelona (online)
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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759–773
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.99
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.99
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Chhavi Sharma, Deepesh Bhageria, William Scott, Srinivas PYKL, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Viswanath Pulabaigari, and Björn Gambäck. 2020. SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor!. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 759–773, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis- the Visuo-Lingual Metaphor! (Sharma et al., SemEval 2020)
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