Enhancing Textual Understanding: Automated Claim Span Identification in English, Hindi, Bengali, and CodeMix

Rudra Roy, Pritam Pal, Dipankar Das, Saptarshi Ghosh, Biswajit Paul


Abstract
Claim span identification, a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to extract specific claims from texts. Such claim spans can be further utilized in various critical NLP applications, such as claim verification, fact-checking, and opinion mining, among others. The present work proposes a multilingual claim span identification framework for handling social media data in English, Hindi, Bengali, and CodeMixed texts, leveraging the strengths and knowledge of transformer-based pre-trained models. Our proposed framework efficiently identifies the contextual relationships between words and precisely detects claim spans across all languages, achieving a high F1 score and Jaccard score. The source code and datasets are available at: https://github.com/pritampal98/claim-span-multilingual
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2025.ranlp-1.118
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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era
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September
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2025
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Galia Angelova, Maria Kunilovskaya, Marie Escribe, Ruslan Mitkov
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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1030–1035
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Rudra Roy, Pritam Pal, Dipankar Das, Saptarshi Ghosh, and Biswajit Paul. 2025. Enhancing Textual Understanding: Automated Claim Span Identification in English, Hindi, Bengali, and CodeMix. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era, pages 1030–1035, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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