Jiayue Zhu
2026
JIA at SemEval-2026 Task 10: A Dual-Track System with BERT-based Encoders and LLMs for Conspiracy Analysis
Jiayue Zhu
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Jiayue Zhu
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
This paper presents a dual-track system for conspiracy theory detection and psycholinguistic marker extraction. We evaluate multiple architectures, including DistilBERT, BERT-Base, DeBERTa-V3, RoBERTa, and instruction-tuned Qwen2.5 models. Qwen2.5-14B (full-shot) achieves the best performance with a Weighted F1-score of 0.80 in the detection task. Marker extraction remains challenging: while the fine-tuned LLM performs best on "Actors," its limited generalization in categories such as "Evidence" and "Effect" highlights persistent semantic ambiguity.