SemanticCuetSync at ArAIEval Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers

Symom Shohan, Md. Hossain, Ashraful Paran, Shawly Ahsan, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque


Abstract
Detecting propagandistic spans and identifying persuasion techniques are crucial for promoting informed decision-making, safeguarding democratic processes, and fostering a media environment characterized by integrity and transparency. Various machine learning (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Multinomial Naive Bayes), deep learning (CNN, CNN+LSTM, CNN+BiLSTM), and transformer-based (AraBERTv2, AraBERT-NER, CamelBERT, BERT-Base-Arabic) models were exploited to perform the task. The evaluation results indicate that CamelBERT achieved the highest micro-F1 score (24.09%), outperforming CNN+LSTM and AraBERTv2. The study found that most models struggle to detect propagandistic spans when multiple spans are present within the same article. Overall, the model’s performance secured a 6th place ranking in the ArAIEval Shared Task-1.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.54
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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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518–523
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Symom Shohan, Md. Hossain, Ashraful Paran, Shawly Ahsan, Jawad Hossain, and Mohammed Moshiul Hoque. 2024. SemanticCuetSync at ArAIEval Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 518–523, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SemanticCuetSync at ArAIEval Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers (Shohan et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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