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New Arabic meme dataset maps political ideology and polarization

Researchers have introduced ArPoMeme, a new dataset containing approximately 7,300 Arabic political memes. This dataset is annotated with ideological orientations such as Leftist, Islamist, Pan-Arabist, and Satirical, as well as dimensions of polarization like Us vs. Them framing and hostility. The creation of ArPoMeme involved a semi-automated pipeline using web scraping and the Qwen2.5-VL-7B vision-language model for text extraction, followed by manual annotation via a custom interface. Analysis of the dataset indicates that Islamist and satirical memes exhibit the highest levels of hostility and mobilization cues. AI

影响 Provides a new resource for analyzing multimodal political discourse and detecting polarization in Arabic content.

排序理由 The cluster describes a new academic dataset and paper, which falls under research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Arabic meme dataset maps political ideology and polarization

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Fadhl Eryani ·

    ArPoMeme: An Annotated Arabic Multimodal Dataset for Political Ideology and Polarization

    Memes have become a prominent medium of political communication in the Arab world, reflecting how humor, imagery, and text interact to express ideological and cultural positions. Despite the centrality of memes to online political discourse, there is a lack of systematically cura…