Umitcan Sahin


2022

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ARC-NLP at CASE 2022 Task 1: Ensemble Learning for Multilingual Protest Event Detection
Umitcan Sahin | Oguzhan Ozcelik | Izzet Emre Kucukkaya | Cagri Toraman
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)

Automated socio-political protest event detection is a challenging task when multiple languages are considered. In CASE 2022 Task 1, we propose ensemble learning methods for multilingual protest event detection in four subtasks with different granularity levels from document-level to entity-level. We develop an ensemble of fine-tuned Transformer-based language models, along with a post-processing step to regularize the predictions of our ensembles. Our approach places the first place in 6 out of 16 leaderboards organized in seven languages including English, Mandarin, and Turkish.