NCL-UoR at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection

Feng Xiong, Thanet Markchom, Ziwei Zheng, Subin Jung, Varun Ojha, Huizhi Liang


Abstract
SemEval-2024 Task 8 introduces the challenge of identifying machine-generated texts from diverse Large Language Models (LLMs) in various languages and domains. The task comprises three subtasks: binary classification in monolingual and multilingual (Subtask A), multi-class classification (Subtask B), and mixed text detection (Subtask C). This paper focuses on Subtask A & B. To tackle this task, this paper proposes two methods: 1) using traditional machine learning (ML) with natural language preprocessing (NLP) for feature extraction, and 2) fine-tuning LLMs for text classification. For fine-tuning, we use the train datasets provided by the task organizers. The results show that transformer models like LoRA-RoBERTa and XLM-RoBERTa outperform traditional ML models, particularly in multilingual subtasks. However, traditional ML models performed better than transformer models for the monolingual task, demonstrating the importance of considering the specific characteristics of each subtask when selecting an appropriate approach.
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2024.semeval-1.25
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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163–169
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.25
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.25
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Feng Xiong, Thanet Markchom, Ziwei Zheng, Subin Jung, Varun Ojha, and Huizhi Liang. 2024. NCL-UoR at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 163–169, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NCL-UoR at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Xiong et al., SemEval 2024)
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