SubmissionNumber#=%=#71 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#BAMBAS at SemEval-2024 Task 4: How far can we get without looking at hierarchies? ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#8 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Eduardo Corrêa Gonçalves JobTitle#==# Organization#==#National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE/IBGE), Rua Andre Cavalcanti, 106 - CEP 20231-050 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Abstract#==#This paper describes the BAMBAS team's participation in SemEval-2024 Task 4 Subtask 1, which focused on the multilabel classification of persuasion techniques in the textual content of Internet memes. We explored a lightweight approach that does not consider the hierarchy of labels. First, we get the text embeddings leveraging the multilingual tweets-based language model, Bernice. Next, we use those embeddings to train a separate binary classifier for each label, adopting independent oversampling strategies in each model in a binary-relevance style. We tested our approach over the English dataset, exceeding the baseline by 21 percentage points, while ranking in 23th in terms of hierarchical F1 and 11st in terms of hierarchical recall. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Arthur Bittencourt Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Vasconcelos Author{1}{Username}#=%=#arthurbv Author{1}{Email}#=%=#athurbittencourt@id.uff.br Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidade Federal Fluminense Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Luiz Felipe Matos Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#de Melo Author{2}{Username}#=%=#lfmatosm Author{2}{Email}#=%=#lfmatosmelo@id.uff.br Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidade Federal Fluminense Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Eduardo Correa Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Goncalves Author{3}{Username}#=%=#ecorrea Author{3}{Email}#=%=#eduardo.ence@gmail.com Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE/IBGE) Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Eduardo Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Bezerra Author{4}{Username}#=%=#ebezerra Author{4}{Email}#=%=#ebezerra@cefet-rj.br Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#CEFET/RJ Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Aline Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Paes Author{5}{Username}#=%=#alinempc Author{5}{Email}#=%=#alinepaes@ic.uff.br Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#Institute of Computing, Universidade Federal Fluminense Author{6}{Firstname}#=%=#Alexandre Author{6}{Lastname}#=%=#Plastino Author{6}{Username}#=%=#plastino Author{6}{Email}#=%=#plastino@ic.uff.br Author{6}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidade Federal Fluminense ========== èéáğö