4 papers
ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts
Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +5
ArGuard is a shared task on harmful content detection in Arabic memes and LLM prompts. It includes two tracks: Track A focuses on multimodal hate detection in Arabic memes, while T…
ClimateChat-300K: A Multi-Modal Facebook Dataset for Understanding Diverse Perspectives in Climate Communication
Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier +2
We present ClimateChat-300K, a large-scale dataset of 299,329 public Facebook posts about climate change collected between May 2020 and May 2024 through the CrowdTangle platform. T…
Audience Engagement with Arabic Women's Social Empowerment and Wellbeing: A Decadal Corpus
Wajdi Zaghouani, Mabrouka Bessghaier, MD. Rafiul Biswas +1
This paper presents the Arabic Women and Society Corpus, a ten year collection of 252,487 public Arabic Facebook posts related to women's empowerment and social wellbeing. The corp…
ArPoMeme: An Annotated Arabic Multimodal Dataset for Political Ideology and Polarization
Wajdi Zaghouani, Kais Attia, Md. Rafiul Biswas +1
Memes have become a prominent medium of political communication in the Arab world, reflecting how humor, imagery, and text interact to express ideological and cultural positions. D…