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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
DIMEMEX@IberLEF2024: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico
URL: https://sites.google.com/inaoe.mx/dimemex-2024/
*** NEWS ***
We are pleased to inform you that the CodaLab site for accessing the details of the DIMEMEX tasks is available at: DIMEMEX@IberLEF 2024: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18118
This platform serves as the central repository of information regarding the DIMEMEX-2024 initiative. We encourage you to visit the site to explore relevant materials, including task descriptions, datasets, evaluation metrics, terms & conditions, submission guidelines, results, and others.
*** Task description ***
Social networks are increasingly playing crucial roles in people’s lives, transforming the dynamics of communication and information sharing. Analyzing the content originated on these platforms has become a hot research topic for the computational linguistics community. However, despite the notable advances made in recent years, there are still open challenges that merit additional research for better treatment or deeper understanding. One such challenge is the detection of abusive content, which includes aspects like hate speech, aggression, offensive language, and other related phenomena.
Given the multimodal nature of social media platforms, we aim to promote the research and development of multimodal computational models for the detection of abusive content in Mexican Spanish, particularly hate, offensive, and vulgar memes. Memes are defined as the conjunction of a text and an image which often provide a joint meaning. This meaning is predominantly humorous or ironic, and the absence of either text or image may alter its interpretation. Accordingly, combining information from both modalities to identify a meme as abusive represents an exciting and challenging problem.
DIMEMEX comprises two subtasks:
a) A three-way classification: hate speech, inappropriate content, and neither.
b) A finer-grained classification distinguishing instances containing hate speech into different categories such as classism, sexism, racism, and others.
Stay tuned! - register to the associated mailing list: https://sites.google.com/inaoe.mx/dimemex-2024/registration
*** Important dates ***
March 15th - Release of training corpora. May 10th - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign. May 21th - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs). May 24th - Publication of official results. Jun 7th - Deadline for paper submission. Jun 21th - Acceptance notification. Jun 28th - Camera ready submission deadline. September - TBD Publication of proceedings. September - TBD IberLEF@SEPLN 2024 Workshop.
*** Task organizers ***
Horacio Jesús Jarquín, INAOE, Mexico Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, INAOE, Mexico Marco Casavantes, INAOE, Mexico ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. Mediante la recepción del presente correo usted reconoce y acepta que en caso de incumplimiento de su parte y/o de sus representantes a los términos antes mencionados, este Centro Público de Investigación tendrá el derecho de reclamar los daños y perjuicios que dicha vulneración le cause; asimismo se hace de su conocimiento que el Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está obligado a salvaguardar los datos personales que le sean proporcionados por terceros, en los términos de la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados. AVISO DE PRIVACIDAD, En cumplimiento con la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados, al recibir datos de carácter personal a través de este medio, se entiende el consentimiento expreso del titular de los datos personales para utilizarlos en actividades propias del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). Para mayor información, lo invitamos a consultar el Aviso de Privacidad en nuestro portal: https://www.inaoep.mx