Shared task @ AAAI 2023

Second Workshop on ​Multimodal Fact-Checking and Hate Speech Detection
February, 2023


ABOUT MEMOTION 3

Important News Datasets Released:

Memotion 3

Dataset: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19yaav8ORSVj9DeJUaHKq1H3HtVnkClBw?usp=sharing
Form:https://forms.gle/gHt35gHEpgBtdmA7A

We are relasing a mix of english and hindi-english

Please register here to access the dataset.

Memotion 3 is the 2nd iteration of the Memotion task which was conducted at Semeval 2020. The challenge consists of three subtasks:

  1. Sentiment (positive, negative, and neutral) analysis of memes
  2. Overall emotion (humor, sarcasm, offensive, and motivational) classification of memes
  3. Classifying the intensity of meme emotions.

We have release annotated data of memes (images and the embedded text).

Some Samples from Data

  • Dataset link : please register here to access the dataset.
  • Evaluation metric : weighted F1 score.
  • Submission instructions : to be updated
  • System description paper : All teams/participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their system. Accepted papers will be published in formal proceedings.
  • Paper submission instruction : To be updated.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • 13 October 2022 : Release of the training set.
  • 8 November 2022 : Release of the test set.
  • 20 November 2022 : Deadline for submitting the final results.
  • 21 November 2022 : Announcement of the results.
  • 28 November 2022 : System paper submission deadline (All teams are invited to submit a paper).
  • 10 December 2022 : Notification of system papers.
  • 20 December 2022 : Camera ready submission.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Dr. Amitava Das:


Dr. Amitava Das is a Core Faculty & Research Associate Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, at University of South Carolina.

Research interests : Code-Mixing and Social Computing.

Organizing Activities [selective] : • Memotion @SemEval2020 • SentiMix @SemEval2020 • Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching @LREC 2020 • CONSTRAINT @AAAI2021

Srijan Kumar:


Srijan Kumar is an assistant professor of CSE at Georgia Tech.

Research interests : Multi-X Misinformation and Malicious Actors: Multi-Platform, Multi-Modal, and Multi-Lingual

Dr. Manoj Chinnakotla:


Manoj Chinnakotla is a principal applied scientist of AI research at Microsoft.

Research interests : NLP, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning.

Dr. Amit Sheth:


Dr. Amit Sheth is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, and a CSE Professor at University of South Carolina.

Research interests : Knowledge Graph, NLP, Analysing Social Media

Organizing Activities [selective] : • Cysoc2021 @ ICWSM2021 • Emoji2021 @ICWSM2021 • KiLKGC 2021 @KGC21

Dr. Asif Ekbal:


Dr. Asif Ekbal is an Associate Professor of CSE at IIT Patna, India.

Research interests : NLP, CodeMixing and Social Computing.

Organizing Activities [selective] : • CONSTRAINT @AAAI2021

Parth Patwa


Masters student at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Research interests : Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Computing, and Computer Vision.

ASSOCIATE ORGANIZERS


AISHWARYA REGANTI
AMAZON ALEXA, USA

Megha Chakraborty
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, USA

SHREYASH MISHRA
IIIT SRI CITY, INDIA

S. SURYAVARDAN
IIIT SRI CITY, INDIA

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