Computational Meme Understanding: A Survey

Khoi P. N. Nguyen; Vincent Ng

EMNLP 2024main0 citations

Computational Meme Understanding: A Survey

Abstract

Computational Meme Understanding, which concerns the automated comprehension of memes, has garnered interest over the last four years and is facing both substantial opportunities and challenges. We survey this emerging area of research by first introducing a comprehensive taxonomy for memes along three dimensions – forms, functions, and topics. Next, we present three key tasks in Computational Meme Understanding, namely, classification, interpretation, and explanation, and conduct a comprehensive review of existing datasets and models, discussing their limitations. Finally, we highlight the key challenges and recommend avenues for future work.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{nguyen-ng-2024-computational,
    title = "Computational Meme Understanding: A Survey",
    author = "Nguyen, Khoi P. N.  and
      Ng, Vincent",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1184/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1184",
    pages = "21251--21267"
}