UNEDTeam at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Zero-Shot Narrative Classification

Jesus M. Fraile - Hernandez, Anselmo Peñas


Abstract
In this paper we present our participation in Subtask 2 of SemEval-2025 Task 10, focusing on the identification and classification of narratives in news of multiple languages, on climate change and the Ukraine-Russia war. To address this task, we employed a Zero-Shot approach using a generative Large Language Model without prior training on the dataset. Our classification strategy is based on two steps: first, the system classifies the topic of each news item; subsequently, it identifies the sub-narratives directly at the finer granularity. We present a detailed analysis of the performance of our system compared to the best ranked systems on the leaderboard, highlighting the strengths and limitations of our approach.
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2025.semeval-1.24
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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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165–173
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Jesus M. Fraile - Hernandez and Anselmo Peñas. 2025. UNEDTeam at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Zero-Shot Narrative Classification. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 165–173, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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