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title = "{UMUT}eam at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 10: Transformer Ensembles for Conspiratorial Span Extraction and Detection",
author = "G{\'o}mez-Naval{\'o}n, Jorge and
Pan, Ronghao and
Bernal-Beltr{\'a}n, Tom{\'a}s and
Garc{\'i}a-D{\'i}az, Jos{\'e} Antonio and
Valencia-Garcia, Rafael",
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-1.69/",
pages = "483--489",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "Conspiracy theories pose significant societal risks and require reliable automated detection methods. In this paper, we present our system for SemEval 2026 Task 10, addressing both conspiracy detection and psycholinguistic marker extraction. We leverage multiple pretrained transformer architectures and ensemble strategies to model conspiratorial discourse at both document and token levels. For classification, our ensemble achieves a weighted F1-score of 0.7688, indicating effective performance in distinguishing conspiratorial statements. For marker extraction, we formulate the task as a BIOES sequence labeling problem and enhance predictions through ensemble and specialist models. Our results highlight both the effectiveness of transformer-based approaches and the challenges of fine-grained conspiracy marker extraction."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T UMUTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Transformer Ensembles for Conspiratorial Span Extraction and Detection
%A Gómez-Navalón, Jorge
%A Pan, Ronghao
%A Bernal-Beltrán, Tomás
%A García-Díaz, José Antonio
%A Valencia-Garcia, Rafael
%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 gomez-navalon-etal-2026-umuteam
%X Conspiracy theories pose significant societal risks and require reliable automated detection methods. In this paper, we present our system for SemEval 2026 Task 10, addressing both conspiracy detection and psycholinguistic marker extraction. We leverage multiple pretrained transformer architectures and ensemble strategies to model conspiratorial discourse at both document and token levels. For classification, our ensemble achieves a weighted F1-score of 0.7688, indicating effective performance in distinguishing conspiratorial statements. For marker extraction, we formulate the task as a BIOES sequence labeling problem and enhance predictions through ensemble and specialist models. Our results highlight both the effectiveness of transformer-based approaches and the challenges of fine-grained conspiracy marker extraction.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.69/
%P 483-489
Markdown (Informal)
[UMUTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Transformer Ensembles for Conspiratorial Span Extraction and Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.69/) (Gómez-Navalón et al., SemEval 2026)
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