In this study, we presented a prompt based layman summarization framework for the biomedical articles and radiology reports developed as part of the BioLaySumm 2025 shared task at the BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2025. For Subtask 1.1 (Plain Lay Summarization), we utilized the abstract as input and employed Meta-LLaMA-3-8B-Instruct with a Tree-of-Thought prompting strategy and obtained 13th rank. In Subtask 1.2 (Lay Summarization with External Knowledge), we adopted an extractive plus prompt approach by combining LEAD-K sentence extraction with Meta-LLaMA-3-8B-Instruct. Medical concepts were identified using MedCAT, and their definitions were taken from Wikipedia to enrich the generated summaries. Our system secured the 2nd position in this subtask. For Subtask 2.1 (Radiology Report Translation), we implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach using the Zephyr model to convert professional radiology reports into layman terms, achieved 3rd place in the shared task.

This overview paper presents the findings of the Shared Task on Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women on Social Media, organized as part of DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. The task aimed to encourage the development of robust systems to detectabusive content targeting women in Tamil and Malayalam, two low-resource Dravidian languages. Participants were provided with annotated datasets containing abusive and nonabusive text curated from YouTube comments. We present an overview of the approaches and analyse the results of the shared task submissions. We believe the findings presented in this paper will be useful to researchers working in Dravidian language technology.

The rapid expansion of social media has facilitated communication but also enabled the spread of misogynistic memes, reinforcing gender stereotypes and toxic online environments. Detecting such content is challenging due to the multimodal nature of memes, where meaning emerges from the interplay of text and images. The Misogyny Meme Detection shared task at DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 focused on Tamil and Malayalam, encouraging the development of multimodal approaches. With 114 teams registered and 23 submitting predictions, participants leveraged various pretrained language models and vision models through fusion techniques. The best models achieved high macro F1 scores (0.83682 for Tamil, 0.87631 for Malayalam), highlighting the effectiveness of multimodal learning. Despite these advances, challenges such as bias in the data set, class imbalance, and cultural variations persist. Future research should refine multimodal detection methods to improve accuracy and adaptability, fostering safer and more inclusive online spaces.

The increasing prevalence of misogynistic content in online memes has raised concerns about their impact on digital discourse. The culture specific images and informal usage of text in the memes present considerable challenges for the automatic detection systems, especially in low-resource languages. While previous shared tasks have addressed misogyny detection in English and several European languages, misogynistic meme detection in the Chinese has remained largely unexplored. To address this gap, we introduced a shared task focused on binary classification of Chinese language memes as misogynistic or non-misogynistic. The task featured memes collected from the Chinese social media and annotated by native speakers. A total of 45 teams registered, with 8 teams submitting predictions from their multimodal models integrating textual and visual features through diverse fusion strategies. The best-performing system achieved a macro F1-score of 0.93035, highlighting the effectiveness of lightweight pretrained encoder fusion. This system used the Chinese BERT and DenseNet-121 for text and image feature extraction, respectively. A feedforward network was trained as a classifier using the features obtained by concatenating text and image features.

Hate speech targeting caste and migration communities is a growing concern in online platforms, particularly in linguistically diverse regions. By focusing on Tamil language text content, this task provides a unique opportunity to tackle caste or migration related hate speech detection in a low resource language Tamil, contributing to a safer digital space. We present the results and main findings of the shared task caste and migration hate speech detection. The task is a binary classification determining whether a text is caste/migration related hate speech or not. The task attracted 17 participating teams, experimenting with a wide range of methodologies from traditional machine learning to advanced multilingual transformers. The top performing system achieved a macro F1-score of 0.88105, enhancing an ensemble of fine-tuned transformer models including XLM-R and MuRIL. Our analysis highlights the effectiveness of multilingual transformers in low resource, ensemble learning, and culturally informed socio political context based techniques.

In this digital era, memes have become a prevalent online expression, humor, sarcasm, and social commentary. However, beneath their surface lies concerning issues such as the propagation of misogyny, gender-based bias, and harmful stereotypes. To overcome these issues, we introduced MDMD (Misogyny Detection Meme Dataset) in this paper. This article focuses on creating an annotated dataset with detailed annotation guidelines to delve into online misogyny within the Tamil and Malayalam-speaking communities. Through analyzing memes, we uncover the intricate world of gender bias and stereotypes in these communities, shedding light on their manifestations and impact. This dataset, along with its comprehensive annotation guidelines, is a valuable resource for understanding the prevalence, origins, and manifestations of misogyny in various contexts, aiding researchers, policymakers, and organizations in developing effective strategies to combat gender-based discrimination and promote equality and inclusivity. It enables a deeper understanding of the issue and provides insights that can inform strategies for cultivating a more equitable and secure online environment. This work represents a crucial step in raising awareness and addressing gender-based discrimination in the digital space.

This paper offers a detailed overview of the first shared task on “Multitask Meme Classification - Unraveling Misogynistic and Trolls in Online Memes,” organized as part of the LT-EDI@EACL 2024 conference. The task was set to classify misogynistic content and troll memes within online platforms, focusing specifically on memes in Tamil and Malayalam languages. A total of 52 teams registered for the competition, with four submitting systems for the Tamil meme classification task and three for the Malayalam task. The outcomes of this shared task are significant, providing insights into the current state of misogynistic content in digital memes and highlighting the effectiveness of various computational approaches in identifying such detrimental content. The top-performing model got a macro F1 score of 0.73 in Tamil and 0.87 in Malayalam.

We present an overview of the first shared task on “Caste and Migration Hate Speech Detection.” The shared task is organized as part of LTEDI@EACL 2024. The system must delineate between binary outcomes, ascertaining whether the text is categorized as a caste/migration hate speech or not. The dataset presented in this shared task is in Tamil, which is one of the under-resource languages. There are a total of 51 teams participated in this task. Among them, 15 teams submitted their research results for the task. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the shared task has been conducted on textual hate speech detection concerning caste and migration. In this study, we have conducted a systematic analysis and detailed presentation of all the contributions of the participants as well as the statistics of the dataset, which is the social media comments in Tamil language to detect hate speech. It also further goes into the details of a comprehensive analysis of the participants’ methodology and their findings.