Paper awarded at EXIST2025
Fighting Sexism with Explainable AI – IC\M/T Research Earns Global Recognition
A research team from the IC\M/T at the St. Pölten UAS achieved outstanding results in the international EXIST2025 competition which focused on detecting sexism in social networks. The challenge went beyond simple detection – it also required understanding the intention behind posts and classifying the type of sexism.
Significant Contribution to Ethical AI Research
Using innovative AI models evaluated in English and Spanish, the team secured 4th place worldwide for English comments and 6th place overall (English + Spanish). Their models stood out in terms of transparency, efficiency, and multilingual capabilities, thus marking a significant contribution to ethical AI research.
The submitted paper demonstrated how discriminatory content can be automatically detected in a transparent and explainable manner. Notably, the models performed well across languages – even though the descriptive adjectives used for explainability were only in English.
The results will be presented at the CLEF Conference in Madrid in September 2025.
Authors: Roberto Labadie-Tamayo (formerly St. Pölten UAS), Adrian Jaques Böck, Djordje Slijepčević, Xihui Chen, Andreas Babic, and Matthias Zeppelzauer