UniBO at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multimodal bi-Transformer Approach to the Binary and Fine-grained Identification of Misogyny in Memes

Arianna Muti, Katerina Korre, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño


Abstract
We present our submission to SemEval 2022 Task 5 on Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification. We address the two tasks: Task A consists of identifying whether a meme is misogynous. If so, Task B attempts to identify its kind among shaming, stereotyping, objectification, and violence. Our approach combines a BERT Transformer with CLIP for the textual and visual representations. Both textual and visual encoders are fused in an early-fusion fashion through a Multimodal Bidirectional Transformer with unimodally pretrained components. Our official submissions obtain macro-averaged F1=0.727 in Task A (4th position out of 69 participants)and weighted F1=0.710 in Task B (4th position out of 42 participants).
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2022.semeval-1.91
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
663–672
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.91
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.91
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Cite (ACL):
Arianna Muti, Katerina Korre, and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño. 2022. UniBO at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multimodal bi-Transformer Approach to the Binary and Fine-grained Identification of Misogyny in Memes. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 663–672, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UniBO at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multimodal bi-Transformer Approach to the Binary and Fine-grained Identification of Misogyny in Memes (Muti et al., SemEval 2022)
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