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.
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2026.semeval-1.300
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Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2384–2393
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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.
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UFG-Semantic at SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions (Hamano et al., SemEval 2026)
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