Are Large Language Models Chronically Online Surfers? A Dataset for Chinese Internet Meme Explanation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online? |
| Approach: | They introduce a dataset for CHinese Internet Meme Explanation that includes popular phrase-based memes from the Chinese Internet. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes popular phrase-based memes from the Chinese Internet, annotated with detailed information on their meaning, origin, example sentences, types, etc. |
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