TY - GEN
T1 - SemEval-2021 Task 6
T2 - 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2021, co-located with The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021
AU - Dimitrov, Dimitar
AU - Ali, Bishr Bin
AU - Shaar, Shaden
AU - Alam, Firoj
AU - Silvestri, Fabrizio
AU - Firooz, Hamed
AU - Nakov, Preslav
AU - Da San Martino, Giovanni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the participating systems. The task focused on memes and had three subtasks: (i) detecting the techniques in the text, (ii) detecting the text spans where the techniques are used, and (iii) detecting techniques in the entire meme, i.e., both in the text and in the image. It was a popular task, attracting 71 registrations, and 22 teams that eventually made an official submission on the test set. The evaluation results for the third subtask confirmed the importance of both modalities, the text and the image. Moreover, some teams reported benefits when not just combining the two modalities, e.g., by using early or late fusion, but rather modeling the interaction between them in a joint model.
AB - We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the participating systems. The task focused on memes and had three subtasks: (i) detecting the techniques in the text, (ii) detecting the text spans where the techniques are used, and (iii) detecting techniques in the entire meme, i.e., both in the text and in the image. It was a popular task, attracting 71 registrations, and 22 teams that eventually made an official submission on the test set. The evaluation results for the third subtask confirmed the importance of both modalities, the text and the image. Moreover, some teams reported benefits when not just combining the two modalities, e.g., by using early or late fusion, but rather modeling the interaction between them in a joint model.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138915813
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.7
DO - 10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85138915813
T3 - SemEval 2021 - 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings of the Workshop
SP - 70
EP - 98
BT - SemEval 2021 - 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings of the Workshop
A2 - Palmer, Alexis
A2 - Schneider, Nathan
A2 - Schluter, Natalie
A2 - Emerson, Guy
A2 - Herbelot, Aurelie
A2 - Zhu, Xiaodan
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 5 August 2021 through 6 August 2021
ER -