Papers by Gijs Van Dijck
MATCHED: Multimodal Authorship-Attribution To Combat Human Trafficking in Escort-Advertisement Data (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for human trafficking detection ignore the multimodal nature of online ads . sex trafficking is a pervasive crime exploiting individuals of all ages and genders . |
| Approach: | They propose to use multimodal authorship attributes to identify suspicious ads that combine text and images to improve vendor identification and verification tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods for vendor identification and verification tasks using text-only, vision-only and multimodal training objectives. |