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title = "{HTE} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Integrating Content Type Information in Binary Persuasive Technique Detection",
author = "Hadjer, Khaldi and
Bouklouha, Taqiy",
editor = "Sawaf, Hassan and
El-Beltagy, Samhaa and
Zaghouani, Wajdi and
Magdy, Walid and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Abu Farha, Ibrahim and
Habash, Nizar and
Khalifa, Salam and
Keleg, Amr and
Haddad, Hatem and
Zitouni, Imed and
Mrini, Khalil and
Almatham, Rawan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.46",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.46",
pages = "502--507",
abstract = "Propaganda frequently employs sophisticated persuasive strategies in order to influence public opinion and manipulate perceptions. As a result, automating the detection of persuasive techniques is critical in identifying and mitigating propaganda on social media and in mainstream media. This paper proposes a set of transformer-based models for detecting persuasive techniques in tweets and news that incorporate content type information as extra features or as an extra learning objective in a multitask learning setting. In addition to learning to detect the presence of persuasive techniques in text, our best model learns specific syntactic and lexical cues used to express them based on text genre (type) as an auxiliary task. To optimize the model and deal with data imbalance, a focal loss is used. As part of ArabicNLP2023-ArAIEval shared task, this model achieves the highest score in the shared task 1A out of 13 participants, according to the official results, with a micro-F1 of 76.34{\%} and a macro-F1 of 73.21{\%} on the test dataset.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T HTE at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Content Type Information in Binary Persuasive Technique Detection
%A Hadjer, Khaldi
%A Bouklouha, Taqiy
%Y Sawaf, Hassan
%Y El-Beltagy, Samhaa
%Y Zaghouani, Wajdi
%Y Magdy, Walid
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y Abu Farha, Ibrahim
%Y Habash, Nizar
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Keleg, Amr
%Y Haddad, Hatem
%Y Zitouni, Imed
%Y Mrini, Khalil
%Y Almatham, Rawan
%S Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore (Hybrid)
%F hadjer-bouklouha-2023-hte
%X Propaganda frequently employs sophisticated persuasive strategies in order to influence public opinion and manipulate perceptions. As a result, automating the detection of persuasive techniques is critical in identifying and mitigating propaganda on social media and in mainstream media. This paper proposes a set of transformer-based models for detecting persuasive techniques in tweets and news that incorporate content type information as extra features or as an extra learning objective in a multitask learning setting. In addition to learning to detect the presence of persuasive techniques in text, our best model learns specific syntactic and lexical cues used to express them based on text genre (type) as an auxiliary task. To optimize the model and deal with data imbalance, a focal loss is used. As part of ArabicNLP2023-ArAIEval shared task, this model achieves the highest score in the shared task 1A out of 13 participants, according to the official results, with a micro-F1 of 76.34% and a macro-F1 of 73.21% on the test dataset.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.46
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.46
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.46
%P 502-507
Markdown (Informal)
[HTE at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Content Type Information in Binary Persuasive Technique Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.46) (Hadjer & Bouklouha, ArabicNLP-WS 2023)
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