TEAM_STRIKERS@DravidianLangTech2025: Misogyny Meme Detection in Tamil Using Multimodal Deep Learning
Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel, Malliga Subramanian, Mohamed Arsath H, Ramya K, Ragav R
Abstract
This study focuses on detecting misogynistic content in memes under the title Misogynistic. Meme Detection Using Multimodal Deep Learning. Through an analysis of both textual and visual components of memes, specifically in Tamil, the study seeks to detect misogynistic rhetoric directed towards women. Preprocessing and vectorizing text data using methods like TF-IDF, GloVe, Word2Vec, and transformer-based embeddings like BERT are all part of the textual analysis process. Deep learning models like ResNet and EfficientNet are used to extract significant image attributes for the visual component. To improve classification performance, these characteristics are then combined in a multimodal framework employing hybrid architectures such as CNN-LSTM, GRU-EfficientNet, and ResNet-BERT. The classification of memes as misogynistic or non-misogynistic is done using sophisticated machine learning and deep learning ap proaches. Model performance is evaluated using metrics like Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and Macro Average F1-Score. This study shows how multimodal deep learning can effectively detect and counteract negative narratives about women in digital media by combining natural language processing with image classification.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.dravidianlangtech-1.106
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Editors:
- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
- Venues:
- DravidianLangTech | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 619–623
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.106/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel, Malliga Subramanian, Mohamed Arsath H, Ramya K, and Ragav R. 2025. TEAM_STRIKERS@DravidianLangTech2025: Misogyny Meme Detection in Tamil Using Multimodal Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 619–623, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- TEAM_STRIKERS@DravidianLangTech2025: Misogyny Meme Detection in Tamil Using Multimodal Deep Learning (Shanmugavadivel et al., DravidianLangTech 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.106.pdf