UTB-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Weirdness, Lexical Features for Detecting Categorical Framings, and Persuasion in Online News

Juan Cuadrado, Elizabeth Martinez, Anderson Morillo, Daniel Peña, Kevin Sossa, Juan Martinez-Santos, Edwin Puertas


Abstract
Nowadays, persuasive messages are more and more frequent in social networks, which generates great concern in several communities, given that persuasion seeks to guide others towards the adoption of ideas, attitudes or actions that they consider to be beneficial to themselves. The efficient detection of news genre categories, detection of framing and detection of persuasion techniques requires several scientific disciplines, such as computational linguistics and sociology. Here we illustrate how we use lexical features given a news article, determine whether it is an opinion piece, aims to report factual news, or is satire. This paper presents a novel strategy for news based on Lexical Weirdness. The results are part of our participation in subtasks 1 and 2 in SemEval 2023 Task 3.
Anthology ID:
2023.semeval-1.214
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
Editors:
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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1551–1557
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.214
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.214
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Juan Cuadrado, Elizabeth Martinez, Anderson Morillo, Daniel Peña, Kevin Sossa, Juan Martinez-Santos, and Edwin Puertas. 2023. UTB-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Weirdness, Lexical Features for Detecting Categorical Framings, and Persuasion in Online News. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1551–1557, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UTB-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Weirdness, Lexical Features for Detecting Categorical Framings, and Persuasion in Online News (Cuadrado et al., SemEval 2023)
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