clujteam at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Finetuning SmolLM2 with Taxonomy-based Prompting for Explaining the Dominant Narrative in Propaganda Textt

Anca Marginean


Abstract
XAI has been a long-standing goal of AI. Explaining why a text can be considered to have a dominant narrative, where the narrative is known, is of great importance for dealing with propaganda in news. This paper reports on the participation of the system clujteam in Subtask 3 of Task 10 of Semveal 2025. The system obtained 7th place with a value of 0.72464 for F1macro, at 0.026 distance from the 1st place. The key components of the solution are the011given taxonomy and supervised fine-tuning of SmolLM2.013
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2025.semeval-1.311
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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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2395–2399
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Anca Marginean. 2025. clujteam at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Finetuning SmolLM2 with Taxonomy-based Prompting for Explaining the Dominant Narrative in Propaganda Textt. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 2395–2399, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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clujteam at SemEval-2025 Task 10: Finetuning SmolLM2 with Taxonomy-based Prompting for Explaining the Dominant Narrative in Propaganda Textt (Marginean, SemEval 2025)
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