Nürnberg NLP at ChildSafeAds 2026: Structurally Dissimilar Voter Ensembles under Four Levels of Data Access

Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, Jens Albrecht


Abstract
We describe the Nürnberg NLP system for ChildSafeAds 2026. The shared task asks what a monitoring system for commercial content in child-facing YouTube videos can achieve at a given level of data access. We answer with per-subtask ensembles of nine voters, organised into three branches that differ in backbone, adaptation method and class scope. Selection rests on channel-disjoint cross-validation, with the development set as a transfer check. The system wins two of the three subtasks. Its product-category score (ST2, 0.8243) and its compliance-flag score (ST3, 0.6530) are the best of the 22 final entries, and it places third on the task mean (0.7079). We further compare four access levels and report the cost at test-set scale.
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2026.nllp-1.29
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Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Nikolaos Aletras, Ilias Chalkidis, Leslie Barrett, Cătălina Goanță, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Gerasimos Spanakis, Shanshan Xu
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Philipp Steigerwald, Eric Rudolph, and Jens Albrecht. 2026. Nürnberg NLP at ChildSafeAds 2026: Structurally Dissimilar Voter Ensembles under Four Levels of Data Access. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026, pages 323–333, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Nürnberg NLP at ChildSafeAds 2026: Structurally Dissimilar Voter Ensembles under Four Levels of Data Access (Steigerwald et al., NLLP 2026)
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