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This paper describes our winning system on SemEval 2022 Task 7: Identifying Plausible Clarifications of Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Texts. A replaced token detection pre-trained model is utilized with minorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Yanjun Yu , Yue Zhou , Li Xiang , Guixiu Yang

While vertical thinking relies on logical and commonsense reasoning, lateral thinking requires systems to defy commonsense associations and overwrite them through unconventional thinking. Lateral thinking has been shown to be challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yifan Jiang , Filip Ilievski , Kaixin Ma

Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very time-consuming, human fact-checkers can benefit from tools that can support them and make them more efficient. Here,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shaden Shaar , Nikola Georgiev , Firoj Alam , Giovanni Da San Martino , Aisha Mohamed , Preslav Nakov

The paper describes the best performing system for the SemEval-2018 Affect in Tweets (English) sub-tasks. The system focuses on the ordinal classification and regression sub-tasks for valence and emotion. For ordinal classification valence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Venkatesh Duppada , Royal Jain , Sushant Hiray

Recently, counterfactuals using "if-only" explanations have become very popular in eXplainable AI (XAI), as they describe which changes to feature-inputs of a black-box AI system result in changes to a (usually negative) decision-outcome.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Saugat Aryal , Mark T. Keane

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for mechanisms to verify the factual accuracy of their outputs. Difficulties lie in assessing the factuality of free-form responses in open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Hasan Iqbal , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Preslav Nakov

Even for domain experts, it is a non-trivial task to verify a scientific claim by providing supporting or refuting evidence rationales. The situation worsens as misinformation is proliferated on social media or news websites, manually or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xiangci Li , Gully Burns , Nanyun Peng

The Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable ability to generate fluent content across a wide spectrum of user queries. However, this capability has raised concerns regarding misinformation and personal information leakage. In this…

This paper describes our system that has been submitted to SemEval-2018 Task 1: Affect in Tweets (AIT) to solve five subtasks. We focus on modeling both sentence and word level representations of emotion inside texts through large distantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ji Ho Park , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

This paper presents the shared task on Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding, which consists of two subtasks: (a) a binary classification task aimed at identifying whether a sentence contains an idiomatic expression,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Edward Gow-Smith , Marcos Garcia , Carolina Scarton , Marco Idiart , Aline Villavicencio

The rapid dissemination of misinformation through social media increased the importance of automated fact-checking. Furthermore, studies on what deep neural models pay attention to when making predictions have increased in recent years.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for automatic tools to check the factual accuracy of their outputs, as LLMs often hallucinate. This is difficult as it requires assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hasan Iqbal , Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

Social media is abundant in visual and textual information presented together or in isolation. Memes are the most popular form, belonging to the former class. In this paper, we present our approaches for the Memotion Analysis problem as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Vishal Keswani , Sakshi Singh , Suryansh Agarwal , Ashutosh Modi

In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub Task A of SemEval 2019 Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums. Given a sentence, the task asks to predict whether the sentence consists of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sarthak Anand , Debanjan Mahata , Kartik Aggarwal , Laiba Mehnaz , Simra Shahid , Haimin Zhang , Yaman Kumar , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Karan Uppal

This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2022 Task 6 on sarcasm detection and its five subtasks for English and Arabic. Sarcasm conveys a meaning which contradicts the literal meaning, and it is mainly found on social networks. It has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Mosab Shaheen

This paper describes our participation in the SemEval-2020 task Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We participate in both subtasks: Span Identification (SI) and Technique Classification (TC). We use a bi-LSTM architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Verena Blaschke , Maxim Korniyenko , Sam Tureski

In this paper, we explore strategies to detect and evaluate counterfactual sentences. We describe our system for SemEval-2020 Task 5: Modeling Causal Reasoning in Language: Detecting Counterfactuals. We use a BERT base model for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Hanna Abi Akl , Dominique Mariko , Estelle Labidurie

This paper presents the participation of team QUST in Task 8 SemEval 2024. We first performed data augmentation and cleaning on the dataset to enhance model training efficiency and accuracy. In the monolingual task, we evaluated traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaoman Xu , Xiangrun Li , Taihang Wang , Jianxiang Tian , Ye Jiang

The Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) shared task was launched to support the development of systems able to verify claims by extracting supporting or refuting facts from raw text. The shared task organizers provide a large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Andreas Hanselowski , Hao Zhang , Zile Li , Daniil Sorokin , Benjamin Schiller , Claudia Schulz , Iryna Gurevych