Ken-ichi Yokote


2023

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Hitachi at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Exploring Cross-lingual Multi-task Strategies for Genre and Framing Detection in Online News
Yuta Koreeda | Ken-ichi Yokote | Hiroaki Ozaki | Atsuki Yamaguchi | Masaya Tsunokake | Yasuhiro Sogawa
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

This paper explains the participation of team Hitachi to SemEval-2023 Task 3 “Detecting the genre, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news in a multi-lingual setup.” Based on the multilingual, multi-task nature of the task and the low-resource setting, we investigated different cross-lingual and multi-task strategies for training the pretrained language models. Through extensive experiments, we found that (a) cross-lingual/multi-task training, and (b) collecting an external balanced dataset, can benefit the genre and framing detection. We constructed ensemble models from the results and achieved the highest macro-averaged F1 scores in Italian and Russian genre categorization subtasks.