Jeison Jimenez Alvear


2026

This paper describes VerbaNex AI’s participation in SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY, a shared task on automatic detection of question evasion in political interview transcripts. The task requires classifying question-answer pairs into three clarity levels (Task 1) and identifying nine evasion techniques (Task 2). We propose and evaluate two independent systems based on RoBERTa-Large. The first is a standard sequence classifier that treats each question-answer pair as a single input sequence, leveraging RoBERTa’s native two-segment encoding to model the relationship between the two texts jointly. The second is a dual-encoder architecture that processes the question and answer independently and computes geometric interaction features to model the semantic misalignment between them explicitly. Both systems are trained on Task 2 labels and derive Task 1 predictions via the hierarchical mapping proposed by the task organizers. Our best result was achieved by the standard sequence classifier, reaching Rank 10 on Task 2 and Rank 25 on Task 1.