@inproceedings{manukonda-kodali-2025-bytesizedllm-dravidianlangtech-2025,
    title = "byte{S}ized{LLM}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2025: Multimodal Misogyny Meme Detection in Low-Resource {D}ravidian Languages Using Transliteration-Aware {XLM}-{R}o{BERT}a, {R}es{N}et-50, and Attention-{B}i{LSTM}",
    author = "Manukonda, Durga Prasad  and
      Kodali, Rohith Gowtham",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Sherly, Elizabeth  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Cn, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya",
    booktitle = "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",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.15/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.15",
    pages = "86--91",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-228-2",
    abstract = "Detecting misogyny in memes is challenging due to their multimodal nature, especially in low-resource languages like Tamil and Malayalam. This paper presents our work in the Misogyny Meme Detection task, utilizing both textual and visual features. We propose an Attention-Driven BiLSTM-XLM-RoBERTa-ResNet model, combining a transliteration-aware fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa for text analysis and ResNet-50 for image feature extraction. Our model achieved Macro-F1 scores of 0.8805 for Malayalam and 0.8081 for Tamil, demonstrating competitive performance. However, challenges such as class imbalance and domain-specific image representation persist. Our findings highlight the need for better dataset curation, task-specific fine-tuning, and advanced fusion techniques to enhance multimodal hate speech detection in Dravidian languages."
}