A Dataset for Multimodal Claim Detection in Social Media

This is the official GitHub page for the paper:

Gullal Singh Cheema, Sherzod Hakimov, Abdul Sittar, Eric Müller-Budack, Christian Otto, and Ralph Ewerth. 2022. “MM-Claims: A Dataset for Multimodal Claim Detection in Social Media.“ In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 962–979, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.

** Update **

If you are interested in the binary task on check-worthiness estimation in multimodal claims, you can find the refined dataset with new test data released as part of the CLEF Checkthat! 2023 challenge: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab/-/tree/main

Publication, dataset, annotation

The paper is available here: https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.72/

Dataset with tweet IDs and labels are available at: https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/mm_claims

Annotation guideline document is available here: https://github.com/TIBHannover/MM_Claims/blob/main/misc_files/annotation_doc.pdf

For access to images and tweets, send an email with organization (university/institute) and purpose/usage details to gullal.cheema@tib.eu

Environment Setup

• Create conda environment: conda env create -f environment.yml
• Activate the environment: conda activate mmclaim11
• Install thundersvm:

git clone https://github.com/Xtra-Computing/thundersvm.git

cd thundersvm
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j

cd python
python setup.py install

• Install clip: pip install git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git

• Add two changes to ALBEF/models/model_ve.py to avoid path errors:

  • At the top:

       import sys
       sys.path.append('ALBEF/')
    

  • 'ALBEF/'+config['bert_config'] in line bert_config = BertConfig.from_json_file(config['bert_config'])

Data Setup

• Download the training, validation and test split csvs in data/
• Download and extract image zip files in data/
• Download text jsons in data/
• Download pre-trained ALBEF checkpoint from https://github.com/salesforce/ALBEF and move it to albef_checkpoint/

Extract Features

• Extract CLIP features python extraction/feat_extract_clip.py -c rn504
• Extract ALBEF features python extraction/feat_extract_albef.py

Training SVM models (Best clip variant from Table 4 in paper)

• Train with clip features on split with resolved label conflicts, Binary claim detection:

  python training/train_svm.py -n 2 -m clip -c rn504 -d wrc

• Train with clip features on split with resolved label conflicts, Tertiary claim detection:

  python training/train_svm.py -n 3 -m clip -c rn50 -d wrc

• Train with clip features on split without label conflicts, Tertiary claim detection:

  python training/train_svm.py -n 3 -m clip -c vit16 -d woc

• Replace -m clip with -m albef to use albef features.

Fine-tune ALBEF

python training/finetune_albef_mm.py --fr_no 8 --bs 8 --cls 2

Inference

• Download trained svm models (above) from here and move them in models/

• Evaluate svm trained with clip features on test splits, Binary claim detection:

  python inference/eval_svm.py -m clip -c rn504 -d wrc

  Output:

  ----------------- Number of classes: 2  Model: clip     CLIP model: rn504       Train split type: with_resolved_conflicts -----------------
  
  Number of test features and labels with resolved label conflicts: (585, 1280) (585,)
  Number of test features and labels wihtout label conflicts: (525, 1280) (525,)
  
  Test with resolved conflicts Acc/F1: 77.78/77.39
  Test without conflicts Acc/F1: 79.43/78.39
  

• Evaluate svm trained with albef features on test splits, Binary claim detection:

  python inference/eval_svm.py -m albef -d wrc

  Output:

  ----------------- Number of classes: 2  Model: albef    CLIP model: vit         Train split type: with_resolved_conflicts -----------------
  
  Number of test features and labels with resolved label conflicts: (585, 768) (585,)
  Number of test features and labels wihtout label conflicts: (525, 768) (525,)
  
  Test with resolved conflicts Acc/F1: 76.92/76.46
  Test without conflicts Acc/F1: 78.67/77.51
  

• Evaluate svm trained with albef features on test splits, Tertiary claim detection:

  python inference/eval_svm.py -m albef -n 3 -d woc

  Output:

  ---------------- Number of classes: 3  Model: albef    CLIP model: vit         Train split type: without_conflicts -----------------
  
  Number of test features and labels with resolved label conflicts: (585, 768) (585,)
  Number of test features and labels wihtout label conflicts: (525, 768) (525,)
  
  Test with resolved conflicts Acc/F1: 71.45/58.61
  Test without conflicts Acc/F1: 75.43/55.54
  

• Evaluate albef:

  python inference/eval_albef.py --cls 2 --model models/mmc_albef_2cls_wrc.pth

Cite

If you find the data or the code useful, cite us:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/naacl/CheemaHSMOE22,
  author    = {Gullal Singh Cheema and
               Sherzod Hakimov and
               Abdul Sittar and
               Eric M{\"{u}}ller{-}Budack and
               Christian Otto and
               Ralph Ewerth},
  editor    = {Marine Carpuat and
               Marie{-}Catherine de Marneffe and
               Iv{\'{a}}n Vladimir Meza Ru{\'{\i}}z},
  title     = {MM-Claims: {A} Dataset for Multimodal Claim Detection in Social Media},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {NAACL}
               2022, Seattle, WA, United States, July 10-15, 2022},
  pages     = {962--979},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year      = {2022},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.72},
  timestamp = {Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:13:00 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/naacl/CheemaHSMOE22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

If you use the refined dataset released in the CLEF Checkthat! 2023 challenge, please cite above and the below paper as well:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ecir/BarronCedenoACMEGHRSNCAN23,
  author       = {Alberto Barr{\'{o}}n{-}Cede{\~{n}}o and
                  Firoj Alam and
                  Tommaso Caselli and
                  Giovanni Da San Martino and
                  Tamer Elsayed and
                  Andrea Galassi and
                  Fatima Haouari and
                  Federico Ruggeri and
                  Julia Maria Stru{\ss} and
                  Rabindra Nath Nandi and
                  Gullal S. Cheema and
                  Dilshod Azizov and
                  Preslav Nakov},
  editor       = {Jaap Kamps and
                  Lorraine Goeuriot and
                  Fabio Crestani and
                  Maria Maistro and
                  Hideo Joho and
                  Brian Davis and
                  Cathal Gurrin and
                  Udo Kruschwitz and
                  Annalina Caputo},
  title        = {The {CLEF-2023} CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political
                  Bias, Factuality, and Authority},
  booktitle    = {Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information
                  Retrieval, {ECIR} 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings,
                  Part {III}},
  series       = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume       = {13982},
  pages        = {506--517},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6\_59},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6\_59},
  timestamp    = {Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:49:31 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ecir/BarronCedenoACMEGHRSNCAN23.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}