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In this paper, we aim to learn associations between visual attributes of fonts and the verbal context of the texts they are typically applied to. Compared to related work leveraging the surrounding visual context, we choose to focus only on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Amirreza Shirani , Franck Dernoncourt , Jose Echevarria , Paul Asente , Nedim Lipka , Thamar Solorio

We describe our approach for SemEval-2021 task 6 on detection of persuasion techniques in multimodal content (memes). Our system combines pretrained multimodal models (CLIP) and chained classifiers. Also, we propose to enrich the data by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Erfan Ghadery , Damien Sileo , Marie-Francine Moens

This paper describes our contribution to SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection Of Propaganda Techniques In News Articles. We start with simple LSTM baselines and move to an autoregressive transformer decoder to predict long continuous propaganda…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Ilya Dimov , Vladislav Korzun , Ivan Smurov

This paper describes our approach to the task of identifying offensive languages in a multilingual setting. We investigate two data augmentation strategies: using additional semi-supervised labels with different thresholds and cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hwijeen Ahn , Jimin Sun , Chan Young Park , Jungyun Seo

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

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

Detecting Machine-Generated Text (MGT) has emerged as a significant area of study within Natural Language Processing. While language models generate text, they often leave discernible traces, which can be scrutinized using either…

This document contains the details of the authors' submission to the proceedings of SemEval 2024's Task 8: Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection Subtask A (monolingual) and B. Detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ayan Datta , Aryan Chandramania , Radhika Mamidi

This discussion paper re-examines SemEval-2020 Task 1, the most influential shared benchmark for lexical semantic change detection, through a three-part evaluative framework: operationalisation, data quality, and benchmark design. First, at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Bach Phan-Tat , Kris Heylen , Dirk Geeraerts , Stefano De Pascale , Dirk Speelmana

We present a novel approach to learn representations for sentence-level semantic similarity using conversational data. Our method trains an unsupervised model to predict conversational input-response pairs. The resulting sentence embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yinfei Yang , Steve Yuan , Daniel Cer , Sheng-yi Kong , Noah Constant , Petr Pilar , Heming Ge , Yun-Hsuan Sung , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Conversation is the most natural form of human communication, where each utterance can range over a variety of possible emotions. While significant work has been done towards the detection of emotions in text, relatively little work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Suyash Vardhan Mathur , Akshett Rai Jindal , Hardik Mittal , Manish Shrivastava

This paper describes the UM-IU@LING's system for the SemEval 2019 Task 6: OffensEval. We take a mixed approach to identify and categorize hate speech in social media. In subtask A, we fine-tuned a BERT based classifier to detect abusive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jian Zhu , Zuoyu Tian , Sandra Kübler

With the rapid advancement of global digitalization, users from different countries increasingly rely on social media for information exchange. In this context, multilingual multi-label emotion detection has emerged as a critical research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jieying Xue , Phuong Minh Nguyen , Minh Le Nguyen , Xin Liu

Text-only and semi-supervised training based on audio-only data has gained popularity recently due to the wide availability of unlabeled text and speech data. In this work, we propose incorporating text-only and semi-supervised training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Ke Hu , Tara N. Sainath , Yanzhang He , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Trevor Strohman , Sepand Mavandadi , Weiran Wang

In this article, we present our methodologies for SemEval-2021 Task-4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Given a fill-in-the-blank-type question and a corresponding context, the task is to predict the most suitable word from a list…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Abheesht Sharma , Harshit Pandey , Gunjan Chhablani , Yash Bhartia , Tirtharaj Dash

This paper presents the PALI team's winning system for SemEval-2021 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation. We fine-tune XLM-RoBERTa model to solve the task of word in context disambiguation, i.e., to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shuyi Xie , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo , Jianping Shen

Positive, supportive online communication in social media (candy speech) has the potential to foster civility, yet automated detection of such language remains underexplored, limiting systematic analysis of its impact. We investigate how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Christian Rene Thelen , Patrick Gustav Blaneck , Tobias Bornheim , Niklas Grieger , Stephan Bialonski

This paper presents our approach to the SemEval-2025 Task~6 (PromiseEval), which focuses on verifying promises in corporate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reports. We explore three model architectures to address the four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Nawar Turk , Eeham Khan , Leila Kosseim

Research on definition extraction has been conducted for well over a decade, largely with significant constraints on the type of definitions considered. In this work, we present DeftEval, a SemEval shared task in which participants must…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Sasha Spala , Nicholas A Miller , Franck Dernoncourt , Carl Dockhorn

This paper describes our multi-view ensemble approach to SemEval-2017 Task 4 on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter, specifically, the Message Polarity Classification subtask for English (subtask A). Our system is a voting ensemble, where each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Edilson A. Corrêa , Vanessa Queiroz Marinho , Leandro Borges dos Santos