Prompteam at UZH Shared Task 2026: RAG-Augmented Classification and Cosine-Filtered Relation Prediction for UN Resolutions

Siddhartha Khandelwal, Jyotsana Bhardwaj


Abstract
We describe our system for the UZH ArgMining 2026 Shared Task on reconstructing argumentative structure in UN/UNESCO resolutions. The task requires (1) classifying paragraph types and assigning thematic tags from a 141-label taxonomy, and (2) predicting directed argumentative relations between paragraphs. Our pipeline combines a quantised Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) backed by FAISS-indexed dense embeddings for few-shot prompting and tag candidate pre-filtering. For relation prediction, we apply a sliding-window cosine pre-filter that reduces the quadratic pair space to near-linear cost. A parallelisable, fault-tolerant pipeline with atomic checkpointing enabled complete processing of 2,959 paragraphs across three concurrent Kaggle T4 sessions despite 12-hour GPU limits. Our system achieved 2nd place overall on the shared task leaderboard.
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2026.argmining-1.14
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Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Mohamed Elaraby, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Julia Romberg, Elena Musi, Federico Ruggeri, John Lawrence
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ArgMining | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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116–119
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Siddhartha Khandelwal and Jyotsana Bhardwaj. 2026. Prompteam at UZH Shared Task 2026: RAG-Augmented Classification and Cosine-Filtered Relation Prediction for UN Resolutions. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning, pages 116–119, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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