R2D2 at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Attention is only as good as its Values! A multimodal system for identifying misogynist memes

Mayukh Sharma, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, Vasantha W B

Abstract
This paper describes the multimodal deep learning system proposed for SemEval 2022 Task 5: MAMI - Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification. We participated in both Subtasks, i.e. Subtask A: Misogynous meme identification, and Subtask B: Identifying type of misogyny among potential overlapping categories (stereotype, shaming, objectification, violence). The proposed architecture uses pre-trained models as feature extractors for text and images. We use these features to learn multimodal representation using methods like concatenation and scaled dot product attention. Classification layers are used on fused features as per the subtask definition. We also performed experiments using unimodal models for setting up comparative baselines. Our best performing system achieved an F1 score of 0.757 and was ranked 3rd in Subtask A. On Subtask B, our system performed well with an F1 score of 0.690 and was ranked 10th on the leaderboard. We further show extensive experiments using combinations of different pre-trained models which will be helpful as baselines for future work.
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2022.semeval-1.106
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Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
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July
Year:
2022
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Seattle, United States
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Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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761–770
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.106
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.106
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Mayukh Sharma, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, and Vasantha W B. 2022. R2D2 at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Attention is only as good as its Values! A multimodal system for identifying misogynist memes. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 761–770, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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R2D2 at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Attention is only as good as its Values! A multimodal system for identifying misogynist memes (Sharma et al., SemEval 2022)
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