Abstract
This paper introduces our bagging-based ensemble learning approach for the SemEval-2024 Task 4 Subtask 1, focusing on multilingual persuasion detection within meme texts. This task aims to identify persuasion techniques employed within meme texts, which is a hierarchical multilabel classification task. The given text may apply multiple techniques, and persuasion techniques have a hierarchical structure. However, only a few prior persuasion detection systems have utilized the hierarchical structure of persuasion techniques. In that case, we designed a multilingual bagging-based ensemble approach, incorporating a soft voting ensemble strategy to effectively exploit persuasion techniques’ hierarchical structure. Our methodology achieved the second position in Bulgarian and North Macedonian, third in Arabic, and eleventh in English.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.semeval-1.28
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 181–187
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.28
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.28
- Cite (ACL):
- Yuhang Zhu. 2024. RDproj at SemEval-2024 Task 4: An Ensemble Learning Approach for Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 181–187, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- RDproj at SemEval-2024 Task 4: An Ensemble Learning Approach for Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes (Zhu, SemEval 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.semeval-1.28.pdf