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# DE-FACTIFY 2022
DE-FACTIFY: Multi-Modal Fake News and Hate-Speech Detection 2022

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Modal Fake News and Hate-Speech Detection (DE-FACTIFY 2022)
co-located with the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI 2022)

### Virtual Event, Vancouver, Canada, February 27, 2022.

Edited by

Dr. Amitava Das1,2
Dr. Tanmay Chakraborty3
Dr. Asif Ekbal4
Dr. Amit Sheth2
1. Wipro AI Labs, India
2. AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA
3. IIIT Delhi, India
4. IIT Patna, India

## Table of Contents

- Summary: There were 22 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 21 papers were accepted for this volume, 12 as regular papers and 9 as short papers.

### Session 1

- Matching Tweets with Applicable Fact-Checks Across Languages
  Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Scott Hale, Rada Mihalcea
- Can a Pretrained Language Model Make Sense with Pretrained Neural Extractors? An Application to Multimodal Classification (short paper)
  Bhagyashree Gaikwad, Bhargav Kurma, Manasi Patwardhan, Shirish Karande, Niranjan Pedanekar
- LAHM : Large Annotated Dataset for Multilingual & Multi-Domain Hate Speech Identification
  Ankit Yadav, Shubham Chandel, Sushant Chatufale, Anil Bandhakavi
- Memotion 2: Dataset on Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Memes (short paper)
  Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy, Nethra Gunti, Shreyash Mishra, Suryavardan S, Aishwarya Reganti, Parth Patwa, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Amit Sheth, Asif Ekbal, Chaitanya Ahuja
- Findings of Memotion 2: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Memes (short paper)
  Parth Patwa, Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy, Nethra Gunti, Shreyash Mishra, Suryavardan S, Aishwarya Reganti, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Amit Sheth, Asif Ekbal, Chaitanya Ahuja,
- HCILab at Memotion 2.0 2022: Analysis of Sentiment, Emotion and Intensity of Emotion Classes from Meme Images using Single and Multi Modalities (short paper)
  Thanh Tin Nguyen, Nhat Truong Pham, Ngoc Duy Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Long H. Nguyen, Yong-Guk Kim
- BROWALLIA at Memotion 2.0 2022 : Multimodal Memotion Analysis with Modified OGB Strategies (short paper)
  Baishan Duan, Yuesheng Zhu
- Yet at Memotion 2.0 2022 : Hate Speech Detection Combining BiLSTM and Fully Connected Layers (short paper)
  Yan Zhuang, Yanru Zhang
- Little Flower at Memotion 2.0 2022 : Ensemble of Multi-Modal Model using Attention Mechanism in MEMOTION Analysis (short paper)
  Kim Ngan Phan, Guee-Sang Lee, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Soo-Hyung Kim
- BLUE at Memotion 2.0 2022: You have my Image, my Text and my Transformer
  Ana-Maria Bucur, Adrian Cosma, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache
- Amazon PARS at Memotion 2.0 2022: Multi-modal Multi-task Learning for Memotion 2.0 Challenge (short paper)
  Gwang Gook Lee, Mingwei Shen

### Session 2

- FACTIFY: A Multi-Modal Fact Verification Dataset
  Shreyash Mishra, Suryavardan S, Amrit Bhaskar, Parul Chopra, Aishwarya Reganti, Parth Patwa, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Amit Sheth, Asif Ekbal
- Benchmarking Multi-Modal Entailment for Fact Verification (short paper)
  Parth Patwa, Shreyash Mishra, Suryavardan S, Amrit Bhaskar, Parul Chopra, Aishwarya Reganti, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Amit Sheth, Asif Ekbal, Chaitanya Ahuja
- Tyche at Factify 2022: Fusion Networks for Multi-Modal Fact-Checking (short paper)
  Ankesh Raj, Nainesh Hulke, Ali Asgar Saifee, Bharath Raj Siv
- Team Yao at Factify 2022: Utilizing Pre-trained Models and Co-attention Networks for Multi-Modal Fact Verification (short paper)
  Wei-Yao Wang, Wen-Chih Peng
- Logically at Factify 2022: Multimodal Fact Verfication
  Jie Gao, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann, Stylianos Oikonomou, David Kiskovski, Anil Bandhakavi
- Greeny at Factify 2022: Ensemble Model with Optimized RoBERTa for Multi-Modal Fact Verification (short paper)
  Wei Bai
- Yet at Factify 2022 : Unimodal and Bimodal RoBERTa-based models for Fact Checking (short paper)
  Yan Zhuang, Yanru Zhang
- Truthformers at Factify 2022 : Evidence aware Transformer based Model for Multimodal Fact Checking (short paper)
  Chaitanya B S N V, Prathyush Potluri, Rutvik Vijjali
- UofA-Truth at Factify 2022 : A Simple Approach to Multi-Modal Fact-Checking
  Abhishek Dhankar, Osmar Zaiane, Francois Bolduc
- GPTs at Factify 2022: Prompt Aided Fact-Verification (short paper)
  Saksham Aggarwal, Pawan Sahu, Taneesh Gupta, Gyanendra Das

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