SinaAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: A Multilingual Transformer Language Model-based Approach for the Detection of News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques

Aryan Sadeghi, Reza Alipour, Kamyar Taeb, Parimehr Morassafar, Nima Salemahim, Ehsaneddin Asgari

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Abstract

This paper describes SinaAI’s participation in SemEval-2023 Task 3, which involves detecting propaganda in news articles across multiple languages. The task comprises three sub-tasks: (i) genre detection, (ii) news framing, and (iii) persuasion technique identification. The employed dataset includes news articles in nine languages and domains, including English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Georgian, Greek, and Spanish, with labeled instances of news framing, genre, and persuasion techniques. Our approach combines fine-tuning multilingual language models such as XLM, LaBSE, and mBERT with data augmentation techniques. Our experimental results show that XLM outperforms other models in terms of F1-Micro in and F1-Macro, and the ensemble of XLM and LaBSE achieved the best performance. Our study highlights the effectiveness of multilingual sentence embedding models in multilingual propaganda detection. Our models achieved highest score for two languages (Greek and Italian) in sub-task 1 and one language (Russian) for sub-task 2.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2023 - Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsAtul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Dogruoz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages2168-2173
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429999
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2023, co-located with the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023 - Hybrid, Toronto, Canada
Duration: 13 Jul 202314 Jul 2023

Publication series

Name17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2023 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2023, co-located with the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityHybrid, Toronto
Period13/07/2314/07/23

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