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This paper focuses on detecting propagandistic spans and persuasion techniques in Arabic text from tweets and news paragraphs. Each entry in the dataset contains a text sample and corresponding labels that indicate the start and end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Md Rafiul Biswas , Zubair Shah , Wajdi Zaghouani

Question answering from semi-structured tables can be seen as a semantic parsing task and is significant and practical for pushing the boundary of natural language understanding. Existing research mainly focuses on understanding contents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiaoyi Ruan , Meizhi Jin , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo , Mengyuan Zhou

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

In this paper, we propose a methodology for task 10 of SemEval23, focusing on detecting and classifying online sexism in social media posts. The task is tackling a serious issue, as detecting harmful content on social media platforms is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi , György Kovács , Filip Nilsson , Tosin Adewumi , Marcus Liwicki

This work describes the development of different models to detect patronising and condescending language within extracts of news articles as part of the SemEval 2022 competition (Task-4). This work explores different models based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jayant Chhillar

We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the participating systems. The task focused on memes and had three…

Named entity recognition identifies common classes of entities in text, but these entity labels are generally sparse, limiting utility to downstream tasks. In this work we present ScienceExamCER, a densely-labeled semantic classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Hannah Smith , Zeyu Zhang , John Culnan , Peter Jansen

In this paper, we present our participation in SemEval-2020 Task-12 Subtask-A (English Language) which focuses on offensive language identification from noisy labels. To this end, we developed a hybrid system with the BERT classifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Manikandan Ravikiran , Amin Ekant Muljibhai , Toshinori Miyoshi , Hiroaki Ozaki , Yuta Koreeda , Sakata Masayuki

In recent times, the detection of hate-speech, offensive, or abusive language in online media has become an important topic in NLP research due to the exponential growth of social media and the propagation of such messages, as well as their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Andrei Paraschiv , Mihai Dascalu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

The availability of language representations learned by large pretrained neural network models (such as BERT and ELECTRA) has led to improvements in many downstream Natural Language Processing tasks in recent years. Pretrained models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Tobias Bornheim , Niklas Grieger , Stephan Bialonski

This paper addresses the identification of toxic, engaging, and fact-claiming comments on social media. We used the dataset made available by the organizers of the GermEval-2021 shared task containing over 3,000 manually annotated Facebook…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Skye Morgan , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Marcos Zampieri

Toxic Spans Detection(TSD) task is defined as highlighting spans that make a text toxic. Many works have been done to classify a given comment or document as toxic or non-toxic. However, none of those proposed models work at the token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hamed Babaei Giglou , Taher Rahgooy , Mostafa Rahgouy , Jafar Razmara

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 work presents an ensemble system based on various uni-modal and bi-modal model architectures developed for the SemEval 2022 Task 5: MAMI-Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification. The challenge organizers provide an English meme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Wentao Yu , Benedikt Boenninghoff , Jonas Roehrig , Dorothea Kolossa

This paper presents the contribution of the Data Science Kitchen at GermEval 2021 shared task on the identification of toxic, engaging, and fact-claiming comments. The task aims at extending the identification of offensive language, by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Niclas Hildebrandt , Benedikt Boenninghoff , Dennis Orth , Christopher Schymura

This paper presents our systems for SemEval 2020 Shared Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We participate in both the span identification and technique classification subtasks and report on experiments using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Michael Kranzlein , Shabnam Behzad , Nazli Goharian

In this paper, we have worked on interpretability, trust, and understanding of the decisions made by models in the form of classification tasks. The task is divided into 3 subtasks. The first task consists of determining Binary Sexism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Debashish Roy , Manish Shrivastava

The spread of toxic content online is an important problem that has adverse effects on user experience online and in our society at large. Motivated by the importance and impact of the problem, research focuses on developing solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xinlei He , Savvas Zannettou , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

This paper describes the BERT-based models proposed for two subtasks in SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We first build the model for Span Identification (SI) based on SpanBERT, and facilitate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jinfen Li , Lu Xiao

In this paper, we present our approach and empirical observations for Cause-Effect Signal Span Detection -- Subtask 2 of Shared task 3~\cite{tan-etal-2022-event} at CASE 2022. The shared task aims to extract the cause, effect, and signal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xingran Chen , Ge Zhang , Adam Nik , Mingyu Li , Jie Fu