Search Results for author: Mithun Das

Found 14 papers, 8 papers with code

Zero shot VLMs for hate meme detection: Are we there yet?

no code implementations19 Feb 2024 Naquee Rizwan, Paramananda Bhaskar, Mithun Das, Swadhin Satyaprakash Majhi, Punyajoy Saha, Animesh Mukherjee

In this study, we aim to investigate the efficacy of these visual language models in handling intricate tasks such as hate meme detection.

Zero-Shot Learning

Low-Resource Counterspeech Generation for Indic Languages: The Case of Bengali and Hindi

1 code implementation11 Feb 2024 Mithun Das, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shivansh Sethi, Punyajoy Saha, Animesh Mukherjee

With the rise of online abuse, the NLP community has begun investigating the use of neural architectures to generate counterspeech that can "counter" the vicious tone of such abusive speech and dilute/ameliorate their rippling effect over the social network.

BanglaAbuseMeme: A Dataset for Bengali Abusive Meme Classification

1 code implementation18 Oct 2023 Mithun Das, Animesh Mukherjee

Finally, we perform a qualitative error analysis of the misclassified memes of the best-performing text-based, image-based and multimodal models.

Classification Meme Classification

HateMM: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Hate Video Classification

1 code implementation6 May 2023 Mithun Das, Rohit Raj, Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, Manish Gupta, Animesh Mukherjee

Hate speech has become one of the most significant issues in modern society, having implications in both the online and the offline world.

Classification Hate Speech Detection +1

HateProof: Are Hateful Meme Detection Systems really Robust?

no code implementations11 Feb 2023 Piush Aggarwal, Pranit Chawla, Mithun Das, Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, Torsten Zesch, Animesh Mukherjee

Empirically, we find a noticeable performance drop of as high as 10% in the macro-F1 score for certain attacks.

Contrastive Learning

Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection in Bengali

1 code implementation7 Oct 2022 Mithun Das, Somnath Banerjee, Punyajoy Saha, Animesh Mukherjee

To overcome the existing research's limitations, in this study, we develop an annotated dataset of 10K Bengali posts consisting of 5K actual and 5K Romanized Bengali tweets.

Hate Speech Detection

HateCheckHIn: Evaluating Hindi Hate Speech Detection Models

1 code implementation LREC 2022 Mithun Das, Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, Animesh Mukherjee

To enable more targeted diagnostic insights of such multilingual hate speech models, we introduce a set of functionalities for the purpose of evaluation.

Hate Speech Detection

Data Bootstrapping Approaches to Improve Low Resource Abusive Language Detection for Indic Languages

1 code implementation26 Apr 2022 Mithun Das, Somnath Banerjee, Animesh Mukherjee

In this paper, to bridge the gap, we demonstrate a large-scale analysis of multilingual abusive speech in Indic languages.

Abusive Language

Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu using Boosting based and BERT based models: A Comparative Approach

1 code implementation27 Nov 2021 Mithun Das, Somnath Banerjee, Punyajoy Saha

In this FIRE 2021 shared task - "HASOC- Abusive and Threatening language detection in Urdu" the organizers propose an abusive language detection dataset in Urdu along with threatening language detection.

Abusive Language

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