Prize at a NeuroIPS 2020 competition for Ekaterina Shutova and her students

Nithin Holla, Phillip Lippe, Shantanu Chandra and Ekaterina Shutova have been awarded a prize at NeuroIPS 2020 Hateful Memes Challenge. The competition focused on the identification of offensive and discriminatory memes online, and solving this task required joint modelling of linguistic and visual properties of the meme. Ekaterina and her students developed a novel multimodal approach to this task, and their solution was amonsts the top 5 winning teams. For more information about the Challenge see: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/hateful-memes-challenge-winners. The full paper will be coming out shortly.