Marcin Sawinski
2026
FactUEP at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Structured Narrative Similarity Scoring with Aspect Decomposition and Weak-Signal Gating
Marcin Sawinski
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Marcin Sawinski
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
This paper presents approach to narrative similarity prediction for SemEval-2026 Task 4 Track A. We introduce an LLM-based system that operationalizes the three core dimensions—Abstract Theme, Course of Action, and Outcomes—via schema-constrained prompting to enforce structured outputs and alignment with the annotation protocol. The system proceeds in three stages: structured aspect decomposition and scoring, weak-signal gating for low-confidence cases, and a targeted LLM-based tiebreak. The final model achieved near-human performance and ranked second on the Track A leaderboard.
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.