WC Team at SemEval-2025 Task 6: PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification leveraging monolingual and multilingual BERT models

Takumi Nishi, Nicole Miu Takagi


Abstract
This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2025 Task 6: PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification. The task aims at identifying “promises” made and “evidence” provided in company ESG statements for various languages. Our team participated in Subtasks 1 and 2 for the languages English, French, and Japanese. In this work, we propose using BERT and finetuning it to better address the task. We achieve competitive results, especially for English and Japanese.
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2025.semeval-1.219
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1670–1676
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Takumi Nishi and Nicole Miu Takagi. 2025. WC Team at SemEval-2025 Task 6: PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification leveraging monolingual and multilingual BERT models. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 1670–1676, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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WC Team at SemEval-2025 Task 6: PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification leveraging monolingual and multilingual BERT models (Nishi & Takagi, SemEval 2025)
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