PunMemeCN: A Benchmark to Explore Vision-Language Models’ Understanding of Chinese Pun Memes (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Pun memes combine wordplay with visual elements to create humor, irony, or other rhetorical effects. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess Chinese pun memes' processing capabilities across three progressive tasks: pun meme detection, sentiment analysis, and chat-driven meme response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can detect pun memes, analyze sentiments, and respond to chats, while ignoring homophone wordplay. |
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