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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

This paper presents our system for SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization, which identifies polarized social media content in 22 languages through three subtasks: binary detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fengze Guo , Yue Chang

We present an overview of the second edition of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. In this edition, ArAIEval offers two tasks: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Maram Hasanain , Md. Arid Hasan , Fatema Ahmed , Reem Suwaileh , Md. Rafiul Biswas , Wajdi Zaghouani , Firoj Alam

This paper presents our submission to the SemEval 2020 - Task 10 on emphasis selection in written text. We approach this emphasis selection problem as a sequence labeling task where we represent the underlying text with various contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Sarthak Anand , Pradyumna Gupta , Hemant Yadav , Debanjan Mahata , Rakesh Gosangi , Haimin Zhang , Rajiv Ratn Shah

This paper presents our system for SemEval 2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (Track A), which focuses on multi-label emotion detection in short texts. We propose a feature-centric framework that dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ziyi Huang , Xia Cui

In this paper, we describe the PUM team's entry to the SemEval-2020 Task 12. Creating our solution involved leveraging two well-known pretrained models used in natural language processing: BERT and XLNet, which achieve state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Piotr Janiszewski , Mateusz Skiba , Urszula Walińska

This paper presents the CUNLP submission for the NLP4IF 2019 shared-task on FineGrained Propaganda Detection. Our system finished 5th out of 26 teams on the sentence-level classification task and 5th out of 11 teams on the fragment-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Tariq Alhindi , Jonas Pfeiffer , Smaranda Muresan

The spread of disinformation and propagandistic content poses a threat to societal harmony, undermining informed decision-making and trust in reliable sources. Online platforms often serve as breeding grounds for such content, and malicious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yunze Xiao , Firoj Alam

The automatic identification of offensive language such as hate speech is important to keep discussions civil in online communities. Identifying hate speech in multimodal content is a particularly challenging task because offensiveness can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Amrita Ganguly , Al Nahian Bin Emran , Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo , Md Nishat Raihan , Dhiman Goswami , Marcos Zampieri

The proliferation of online news and the increasing spread of misinformation necessitate robust methods for automatic data analysis. Narrative classification is emerging as a important task, since identifying what is being said online is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva

Patronizing and condescending language (PCL) is everywhere, but rarely is the focus on its use by media towards vulnerable communities. Accurately detecting PCL of this form is a difficult task due to limited labeled data and how subtle it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 David Koleczek , Alex Scarlatos , Siddha Karakare , Preshma Linet Pereira

Patronizing and condescending language (PCL) has a large harmful impact and is difficult to detect, both for human judges and existing NLP systems. At SemEval-2022 Task 4, we propose a novel Transformer-based model and its ensembles to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dou Hu , Mengyuan Zhou , Xiyang Du , Mengfei Yuan , Meizhi Jin , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo , Xiaofeng Shi

PCL detection task is aimed at identifying and categorizing language that is patronizing or condescending towards vulnerable communities in the general media.Compared to other NLP tasks of paragraph classification, the negative language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yong Deng , Chenxiao Dou , Liangyu Chen , Deqiang Miao , Xianghui Sun , Baochang Ma , Xiangang Li

This research presents our team KEIS@JUST participation at SemEval-2020 Task 12 which represents shared task on multilingual offensive language. We participated in all the provided languages for all subtasks except sub-task-A for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saja Khaled Tawalbeh , Mahmoud Hammad , Mohammad AL-Smadi

This paper describes our system (MIC-CIS) details and results of participation in the fine-grained propaganda detection shared task 2019. To address the tasks of sentence (SLC) and fragment level (FLC) propaganda detection, we explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Pankaj Gupta , Khushbu Saxena , Usama Yaseen , Thomas Runkler , Hinrich Schütze

The real-world impact of polarization and toxicity in the online sphere marked the end of 2020 and the beginning of this year in a negative way. Semeval-2021, Task 5 - Toxic Spans Detection is based on a novel annotation of a subset of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Andrei Paraschiv , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub-task A and Sub Task B of SemEval 2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media. Sub-task A involves identifying if a given tweet is…

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

In this article, we describe the system that we used for the memotion analysis challenge, which is Task 8 of SemEval-2020. This challenge had three subtasks where affect based sentiment classification of the memes was required along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Sourya Dipta Das , Soumil Mandal

Women are influential online, especially in image-based social media such as Twitter and Instagram. However, many in the network environment contain gender discrimination and aggressive information, which magnify gender stereotypes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Da Li , Ming Yi , Yukai He

Users from the online environment can create different ways of expressing their thoughts, opinions, or conception of amusement. Internet memes were created specifically for these situations. Their main purpose is to transmit ideas by using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 George-Alexandru Vlad , George-Eduard Zaharia , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Costin-Gabriel Chiru , Stefan Trausan-Matu