Mela at ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Arabic with a Multilingual Approach

Md Riyadh, Sara Nabhani


Abstract
This paper presents our system submitted for Task 1 of the ArAIEval Shared Task on Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection in Arabic. Task 1 involves identifying all employed propaganda techniques in a given text from a set of possible techniques or detecting that no propaganda technique is present. Additionally, the task requires identifying the specific spans of text where these techniques occur. We explored the capabilities of a multilingual BERT model for this task, focusing on the effectiveness of using outputs from different hidden layers within the model. By fine-tuning the multilingual BERT, we aimed to improve the model’s ability to recognize and locate various propaganda techniques. Our experiments showed that leveraging the hidden layers of the BERT model enhanced detection performance. Our system achieved competitive results, ranking second in the shared task, demonstrating that multilingual BERT models, combined with outputs from hidden layers, can effectively detect and identify spans of propaganda techniques in Arabic text.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.47
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Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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478–482
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Md Riyadh and Sara Nabhani. 2024. Mela at ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Arabic with a Multilingual Approach. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 478–482, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Mela at ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Arabic with a Multilingual Approach (Riyadh & Nabhani, ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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