Sahara Pioneers at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items

Marwa Solla, Hassan Ebrahem, Alya Issa, Harmain Harmain, Abdusalam Nwesri


Abstract
In today’s digital age, the spread of propaganda through news channels has become a pressing concern. To address this issue, the research community has organized a shared task on detecting propaganda in news posts. This paper aims to present the work carried out at the University of Tripoli for the development and implementation of data annotation guidelines by a team of five annotators. The guidelines were used to annotate 2600 news articles. Each article is labeled as “propaganda”, “Not propaganda”, “Not Applicable”, or “Not clear”. The shared task results put our efforts in the third position among 6 participating teams in the consistency track.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.64
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
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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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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601–608
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.64
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.64
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Marwa Solla, Hassan Ebrahem, Alya Issa, Harmain Harmain, and Abdusalam Nwesri. 2024. Sahara Pioneers at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 601–608, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Sahara Pioneers at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items (Solla et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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