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ProBel: Propaganda Detection with Techniques, Spans, and Explanations
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Elisa Sartori +2
Propaganda detection includes several related prediction levels, ranging from sentence-level decisions to technique classification and span identification. However, it remains uncl…
Beyond Logical Forms: LLM-Extracted Patterns for Fallacy Classification
Eleni Papadopulos, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino
In today's fast-paced information era, logical fallacies, defined as defective patterns of reasoning, inevitably contribute to the growth of information disorder. However, often fa…
Adapting Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Explainable Detection of Hateful and Propagandistic Memes
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2
Hateful and propagandistic memes exploit the interplay between images and text to convey harmful intent that neither modality reveals alone. Although thinking-based multimodal larg…
CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation
Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +5
Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before…
Can Thinking Models Think to Detect Hateful Memes?
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2
Hateful memes often require compositional multimodal reasoning: the image and text may appear benign in isolation, yet their interaction conveys harmful intent. Although thinking-b…
MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes
Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat +4
Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme…