ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content

Maram Hasanain, Md Arid Hasan, Fatema Ahmed, Reem Suwaileh, Md Rafiul Biswas, Wajdi Zaghouani, Firoj Alam

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Abstract

We present an overview of the second edition of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. In this edition, ArAIEval offers two tasks: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification in tweets and news articles, and (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes. A total of 14 teams participated in the final evaluation phase, with 6 and 9 teams participating in Tasks 1 and 2, respectively. Finally, 11 teams submitted system description papers. Across both tasks, we observed that fine-tuning transformer models such as AraBERT was at the core of the majority of the participating systems. We provide a description of the task setup, including a description of the dataset construction and the evaluation setup. We further provide a brief overview of the participating systems. All datasets and evaluation scripts are released to the research community.1 We hope this will enable further research on these important tasks in Arabic.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsNizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages456-466
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761322
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 16 Aug 2024 → …

Publication series

NameArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period16/08/24 → …

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