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title = "{NJUSTKMG} at {S}em{E}val 2026 Task 10 {P}sy{C}o{M}ark{---}Subtask 2:Conspiracy Detection",
author = "Zheng, Yuhan and
Yang, Yang",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.128/",
pages = "932--937",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "This paper describes our system designed forSemEval-2026 Task 10: PsyCoMark{---}Subtask2: Conspiracy Detection. We proposed a two-stage approach that leverages large-scale pre-trained models and a fine-tuned smaller modelto detect conspiracy theories in text. In thefirst stage, we utilize a large model to test allthe test samples and filter out those that areclearly unrelated to conspiracy theories. Forthe remaining samples, we apply a retrieval-enhanced custom prompt strategy combinedwith the Roberta-Large model in the secondstage. This allows us to fine-tune the modelwith weighted predictions based on relevantretrieved information, enhancing detection ac-curacy. Our system achieved first place onthe leaderboard, with an impressive F1 Scoreof 0.8874. We also present a brief analysisof the effectiveness of the methods used, in-cluding the advantages and limitations of largemodel-based filtering and retrieval-augmentedfine-tuning."
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%T NJUSTKMG at SemEval 2026 Task 10 PsyCoMark—Subtask 2:Conspiracy Detection
%A Zheng, Yuhan
%A Yang, Yang
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-414-9
%F zheng-yang-2026-njustkmg
%X This paper describes our system designed forSemEval-2026 Task 10: PsyCoMark—Subtask2: Conspiracy Detection. We proposed a two-stage approach that leverages large-scale pre-trained models and a fine-tuned smaller modelto detect conspiracy theories in text. In thefirst stage, we utilize a large model to test allthe test samples and filter out those that areclearly unrelated to conspiracy theories. Forthe remaining samples, we apply a retrieval-enhanced custom prompt strategy combinedwith the Roberta-Large model in the secondstage. This allows us to fine-tune the modelwith weighted predictions based on relevantretrieved information, enhancing detection ac-curacy. Our system achieved first place onthe leaderboard, with an impressive F1 Scoreof 0.8874. We also present a brief analysisof the effectiveness of the methods used, in-cluding the advantages and limitations of largemodel-based filtering and retrieval-augmentedfine-tuning.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.128/
%P 932-937
Markdown (Informal)
[NJUSTKMG at SemEval 2026 Task 10 PsyCoMark—Subtask 2:Conspiracy Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.128/) (Zheng & Yang, SemEval 2026)
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