SSNCSE_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme classification for Tamil using machine learning approach
Abstract
Social media are interactive platforms that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas or other forms of expression among people. This exchange is not free from offensive, trolling or malicious contents targeting users or communities. One way of trolling is by making memes. A meme is an image or video that represents the thoughts and feelings of a specific audience. The challenge of dealing with memes is that they are region-specific and their meaning is often obscured in humour or sarcasm. A meme is a form of media that spreads an idea or emotion across the internet. The multi modal nature of memes, postings of hateful memes or related events like trolling, cyberbullying are increasing day by day. Memes make it even more challenging since they express humour and sarcasm in an implicit way, because of which the meme may not be offensive if we only consider the text or the image. In this paper we proposed a approach for meme classification for Tamil language that considers only the text present in the meme. This work explains the submissions made by SSNCSE NLP in DravidanLangTechEACL2021 task for meme classification in Tamil language. We achieve F1 scores of 0.50 using the proposed approach using the test-set.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.dravidianlangtech-1.49
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Kyiv
- Editors:
- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly
- Venue:
- DravidianLangTech
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 336–339
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.49
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Bharathi B and Agnusimmaculate Silvia A. 2021. SSNCSE_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme classification for Tamil using machine learning approach. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 336–339, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SSNCSE_NLP@DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Meme classification for Tamil using machine learning approach (B & A, DravidianLangTech 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.49.pdf