UFG-Semantic at SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions
Aline Hamano, Beatriz Felicio, Henrique Galvão, Nádia Da Silva
Abstract
We propose an approach for Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions. We make use of data augmentation, supervised fine-tuning, and model benchmarking to detect and classify response ambiguity in political discourse. Building on well-founded theory on equivocation and leveraging recent advancements in language modeling, our system was structured based on question/answer (QA) pairs extracted from presidential interviews, and it was evaluated in Clarity-level Classification and Evasion-level Classification.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.semeval-1.300
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, USA
- Editors:
- Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
- Venues:
- SemEval | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2384–2393
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.semeval-1.300/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Aline Hamano, Beatriz Felicio, Henrique Galvão, and Nádia Da Silva. 2026. UFG-Semantic at SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 2384–2393, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- UFG-Semantic at SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions (Hamano et al., SemEval 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.semeval-1.300.pdf