QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models

Maram Hasanain, Ahmed El-Shangiti, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Preslav Nakov, Firoj Alam


Abstract
Misinformation spreading in mainstream and social media has been misleading users in different ways. Manual detection and verification efforts by journalists and fact-checkers can no longer cope with the great scale and quick spread of misleading information. This motivated research and industry efforts to develop systems for analyzing and verifying news spreading online. The SemEval-2023 Task 3 is an attempt to address several subtasks under this overarching problem, targeting writing techniques used in news articles to affect readers’ opinions. The task addressed three subtasks with six languages, in addition to three “surprise” test languages, resulting in 27 different test setups. This paper describes our participating system to this task. Our team is one of the 6 teams that successfully submitted runs for all setups. The official results show that our system is ranked among the top 3 systems for 10 out of the 27 setups.
Anthology ID:
2023.semeval-1.172
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1237–1244
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.172
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.172
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Maram Hasanain, Ahmed El-Shangiti, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Preslav Nakov, and Firoj Alam. 2023. QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1237–1244, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models (Hasanain et al., SemEval 2023)
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