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Meme-ingful Analysis: Enhanced Understanding of Cyberbullying in Memes Through Multimodal Explanations

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09899v1
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:24:30 GMT
Title: Meme-ingful Analysis: Enhanced Understanding of Cyberbullying in Memes Through Multimodal Explanations
Authors: Prince Jha, Krishanu Maity, Raghav Jain, Apoorv Verma, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Abstract summary: We introduce em MultiBully-Ex, the first benchmark dataset for multimodal explanation from code-mixed cyberbullying memes. A Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) approach has been proposed for visual and textual explanation of a meme.
Score: 48.82168723932981
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Abstract: Internet memes have gained significant influence in communicating political, psychological, and sociocultural ideas. While memes are often humorous, there has been a rise in the use of memes for trolling and cyberbullying. Although a wide variety of effective deep learning-based models have been developed for detecting offensive multimodal memes, only a few works have been done on explainability aspect. Recent laws like "right to explanations" of General Data Protection Regulation, have spurred research in developing interpretable models rather than only focusing on performance. Motivated by this, we introduce {\em MultiBully-Ex}, the first benchmark dataset for multimodal explanation from code-mixed cyberbullying memes. Here, both visual and textual modalities are highlighted to explain why a given meme is cyberbullying. A Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) projection-based multimodal shared-private multitask approach has been proposed for visual and textual explanation of a meme. Experimental results demonstrate that training with multimodal explanations improves performance in generating textual justifications and more accurately identifying the visual evidence supporting a decision with reliable performance improvements.