Jidan Al Abrar
2025
Fired_from_NLP@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Multimodal Approach for Detecting Misogynistic Content in Tamil and Malayalam Memes
Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury
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Mostak Mahmud Chowdhury
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Anik Mahmud Shanto
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Jidan Al Abrar
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Hasan Murad
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
In the context of online platforms, identifying misogynistic content in memes is crucial for maintaining a safe and respectful environment. While most research has focused on high-resource languages, there is limited work on languages like Tamil and Malayalam. To address this gap, we have participated in the Misogyny Meme Detection task organized by DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025, utilizing the provided dataset named MDMD (Misogyny Detection Meme Dataset), which consists of Tamil and Malayalam memes. In this paper, we have proposed a multimodal approach combining visual and textual features to detect misogynistic content. Through a comparative analysis of different model configurations, combining various deep learning-based CNN architectures and transformer-based models, we have developed fine-tuned multimodal models that effectively identify misogynistic memes in Tamil and Malayalam. We have achieved an F1 score of 0.678 for Tamil memes and 0.803 for Malayalam memes.