CUET_NetworkSociety@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Multimodal Framework to Detect Misogyny Meme in Dravidian Languages

MD Musa Kalimullah Ratul, Sabik Aftahee, Tofayel Ahmmed Babu, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque


Abstract
Memes are commonly used for communication on social media platforms, and some of them can propagate misogynistic content, spreading harmful messages. Detecting such misogynistic memes has become a significant challenge, especially for low-resource languages like Tamil and Malayalam, due to their complex linguistic structures. To tackle this issue, a shared task on detecting misogynistic memes was organized at DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. This paper proposes a multimodal deep learning approach for detecting misogynistic memes in Tamil and Malayalam. The proposed model combines fine-tuned ResNet18 for visual feature extraction and indicBERT for analyzing textual content. The fused model was applied to the test dataset, achieving macro F1 scores of 76.32% for Tamil and 80.35% for Malayalam. Our approach led to 7th and 12th positions for Tamil and Malayalam, respectively.
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2025.dravidianlangtech-1.92
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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May
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2025
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Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Saranya Rajiakodi, Balasubramanian Palani, Malliga Subramanian, Subalalitha Cn, Dhivya Chinnappa
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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MD Musa Kalimullah Ratul, Sabik Aftahee, Tofayel Ahmmed Babu, Jawad Hossain, and Mohammed Moshiul Hoque. 2025. CUET_NetworkSociety@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Multimodal Framework to Detect Misogyny Meme in Dravidian Languages. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 529–535, Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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