HOMADOS at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Multi-Task Learning for Propaganda Detection

Konrad Kaczyński, Piotr Przybyła


Abstract
Among the tasks motivated by the proliferation of misinformation, propaganda detection is particularly challenging due to the deficit of fine-grained manual annotations required to train machine learning models. Here we show how data from other related tasks, including credibility assessment, can be leveraged in multi-task learning (MTL) framework to accelerate the training process. To that end, we design a BERT-based model with multiple output layers, train it in several MTL scenarios and perform evaluation against the SemEval gold standard.
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2021.semeval-1.141
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1027–1031
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.141
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.141
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Konrad Kaczyński and Piotr Przybyła. 2021. HOMADOS at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Multi-Task Learning for Propaganda Detection. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 1027–1031, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HOMADOS at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Multi-Task Learning for Propaganda Detection (Kaczyński & Przybyła, SemEval 2021)
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