@inproceedings{debnath-etal-2026-cuet-yet,
    title = "Cuet Yet Another Baseline@{CH}i{PSAL} {LREC} 2026: Shared Task on Multimodal Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes",
    author = "Debnath, Rotna Dipika  and
      Ruhi, Shahrin Afroz Hoque  and
      Labiba, Ayesha  and
      Mallik, Arpita  and
      Murad, Hasan",
    editor = "Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer  and
      Vaidya, Ashwini",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing {S}outh {A}sian Languages ({CH}i{PSAL}2026)",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/test-year-match/2026.chipsal-1.30/",
    doi = "10.63317/4kg38ys6pxa5",
    pages = "292--299",
    abstract = "Memes serve as a method to express feelings such as humor, sarcasm, and diverse viewpoints. The task of identifying sentiment in memes is becoming increasingly complex, particularly in low-resource languages like Nepali where memes often combine images, texts, and code-mixed language. However, multimodal methods for sentiment analysis in Nepali memes seem to be insufficient. In this paper, we present our system for the Subtask B(Sentiment Analysis) for Shared Task on Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes@CHiPSAL LREC 2026. We implement various unimodal models, such as XLM-RoBERTa-large,MuRIL-base, Twitter-XLM-R for text. Moreover, we incorporate BLIP-2 captions to enhance visual-text understanding and adopted a multimodal approach that fuses textual embeddings, image embeddings, caption embeddings, and similarity scores. The fused features process through cross-attention and a dense neural network for classification, with focal loss and class weighting used to improve performance. Our approach achieved a macro F1 score of 0.50 securing 7th place and highlighting the importance of cross-modal interaction and large-scale pretrained vision-language models for robust meme understanding in sentiment analysis."
}