Title
SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images
Abstract
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.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
SemEval@ACL/IJCNLP
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
SemEval-2021
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitar Dimitrov137649.21
Bishr Bin Ali200.34
Shaden Shaar304.06
Firoj Alam4127.13
Fabrizio Silvestri51819107.29
Hamed Firooz602.03
Preslav Nakov704.06
Giovanni Da San Martino802.03