Ewelina Księżniak
Also published as: Ewelina Ksiezniak
2026
Team ewelinaksiez at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Reducing Content Bias in Syllogistic Reasoning via Semantic Abstraction
Ewelina Księżniak
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Ewelina Księżniak
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
This paper presents our system for SemEval-2026 Task~11 Subtask~1 on content-independent syllogistic reasoning. The task evaluates whether language models can determine the formal validity of logical arguments independently of their semantic plausibility. To reduce content-driven biases, we propose a data augmentation strategy that progressively abstracts lexical semantics by replacing content words with symbolic placeholders and pseudo-words while preserving logical structure. Experiments based on fine-tuning microsoft/deberta-large-mnli show that abstraction-based augmentation reduces Content Effect and improves accuracy, leading to competitive performance on the official leaderboard. However, we observe substantial sensitivity to random initialization, suggesting that evaluation outcomes are partly influenced by stochastic factors. To better understand these effects, we conduct a layer-wise probing analysis using a Minimum Description Length framework, showing that the proposed approach decreases the accessibility of plausibility information in later transformer layers, indicating a shift toward more structure-oriented reasoning.
2025
Multilabel Classification of Persuasion Techniques with self-improving LLM agent: SlavicNLP 2025 Shared Task
Marcin Sawinski | Krzysztof Wecel | Ewelina Ksiezniak
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
Marcin Sawinski | Krzysztof Wecel | Ewelina Ksiezniak
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
We present a system for the SlavicNLP 2025 Shared Task on multilabel classification of 25 persuasion techniques across Slavic languages. We investigate the effectiveness of in-context learning with one-shot classification, automatic prompt refinement, and supervised fine-tuning using self-generated annotations. Our findings highlight the potential of LLM-based system to generalize across languages and label sets with minimal supervision.
Robust Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Slavic Languages via Multitask Debiasing and Walking Embeddings
Ewelina Ksiezniak | Krzysztof Wecel | Marcin Sawinski
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
Ewelina Ksiezniak | Krzysztof Wecel | Marcin Sawinski
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
We present our solution to Subtask 1 of the Shared Task on the Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniques in Texts for Slavic Languages. Our approach integrates fine-tuned multilingual transformer models with two complementary robustness-oriented strategies: Walking Embeddings and Content-Debiasing. With the first, we tried to understand the change in embeddings when various manipulation techniques were applied. The latter leverages a supervised contrastive objective over semantically equivalent yet stylistically divergent text pairs, generated via GPT-4. We conduct extensive experiments, including 5-fold cross-validation and out-of-domain evaluation, and explore the impact of contrastive loss weighting.