5 papers
MUNIChus: Multilingual News Image Captioning Benchmark
Yuji Chen, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi +4
The goal of news image captioning is to generate captions by integrating news article content with corresponding images, highlighting the relationship between textual context and v…
Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive
Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe +3
Offensive speech detection is a key component of content moderation. However, what is offensive can be highly subjective. This paper investigates how machine and human moderators d…
A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data
Ana-Maria Bucur, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe +1
The increasing prevalence of mental disorders globally highlights the urgent need for effective digital screening methods that can be used in multilingual contexts. Most existing s…
A Neuro-Symbolic Multi-Agent Approach to Legal-Cybersecurity Knowledge Integration
Chiara Bonfanti, Alessandro Druetto, Cataldo Basile +2
The growing intersection of cybersecurity and law creates a complex information space where traditional legal research tools struggle to deal with nuanced connections between cases…
Evaluating Open-Source Vision-Language Models for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Saroj Basnet, Shafkat Farabi, Tharindu Ranasinghe +2
Recent advances in open-source vision-language models (VLMs) offer new opportunities for understanding complex and subjective multimodal phenomena such as sarcasm. In this work, we…