@inproceedings{oumer-etal-2023-itri,
    title = "Itri Amigos at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Transformer vs. Compression-Based Models for Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection",
    author = "Oumer, Jehad  and
      Ahmed, Nouman  and
      Flechas Manrique, Natalia",
    editor = "Sawaf, Hassan  and
      El-Beltagy, Samhaa  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi  and
      Magdy, Walid  and
      Abdelali, Ahmed  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      Abu Farha, Ibrahim  and
      Habash, Nizar  and
      Khalifa, Salam  and
      Keleg, Amr  and
      Haddad, Hatem  and
      Zitouni, Imed  and
      Mrini, Khalil  and
      Almatham, Rawan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2023.arabicnlp-1.53/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.53",
    pages = "543--548",
    abstract = "Social media has significantly amplified the dissemination of misinformation. Researchers have employed natural language processing and machine learning techniques to identify and categorize false information on these platforms. While there is a well-established body of research on detecting fake news in English and Latin languages, the study of Arabic fake news detection remains limited. This paper describes the methods used to tackle the challenges of the ArAIEval shared Task 2023. We conducted experiments with both monolingual Arabic and multi-lingual pre-trained Language Models (LM). We found that the monolingual Arabic models outperformed in all four subtasks. Additionally, we explored a novel lossless compression method, which, while not surpassing pretrained LM performance, presents an intriguing avenue for future experimentation to achieve comparable results in a more efficient and rapid manner."
}