@inproceedings{siino-2024-mcrock,
    title = "{M}c{R}ock at {S}em{E}val-2024 Task 4: Mistral 7{B} for Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques In Memes",
    author = "Siino, Marco",
    editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Tayyar Madabushi, Harish  and
      Da San Martino, Giovanni  and
      Rosenthal, Sara  and
      Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.semeval-1.9/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.9",
    pages = "53--59",
    abstract = "One of the most widely used content types in internet misinformation campaigns is memes. Since they can readily reach a big number of users on social media sites, they are most successful there. Memes used in a disinformation campaign include a variety of rhetorical and psychological strategies, including smearing, name-calling, and causal oversimplification, to achieve their goal of influencing the users. The shared task{'}s objective is to develop models for recognizing these strategies solely in a meme{'}s textual content (Subtask 1) and in a multimodal context where both the textual and visual material must be analysed simultaneously (Subtasks two and three). In this paper, we discuss the application of a Mistral 7B model to address the Subtask one in English. Find the persuasive strategy that a meme employs from a hierarchy of twenty based just on its ``textual content.'' Only a portion of the reward is awarded if the technique{'}s ancestor node is chosen. This classification issue is multilabel hierarchical. Our approach based on the use of a Mistral 7B model obtains a Hierarchical F1 of 0.42 a Hierarchical Precision of 0.30 and a Hierarchical Recall of 0.71. Our selected approach is able to outperform the baseline provided for the competition."
}