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@misc{gemma2024,
      title={Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology}, 
      author={Gemma Team and Thomas Mesnard and Cassidy Hardin and Robert Dadashi and Surya Bhupatiraju and Shreya Pathak and Laurent Sifre and Morgane Rivière and Mihir Sanjay Kale and Juliette Love and Pouya Tafti and Léonard Hussenot and Pier Giuseppe Sessa and Aakanksha Chowdhery and Adam Roberts and Aditya Barua and Alex Botev and Alex Castro-Ros and Ambrose Slone and Amélie Héliou and Andrea Tacchetti and Anna Bulanova and Antonia Paterson and Beth Tsai and Bobak Shahriari and Charline Le Lan and Christopher A. Choquette-Choo and Clément Crepy and Daniel Cer and Daphne Ippolito and David Reid and Elena Buchatskaya and Eric Ni and Eric Noland and Geng Yan and George Tucker and George-Christian Muraru and Grigory Rozhdestvenskiy and Henryk Michalewski and Ian Tenney and Ivan Grishchenko and Jacob Austin and James Keeling and Jane Labanowski and Jean-Baptiste Lespiau and Jeff Stanway and Jenny Brennan and Jeremy Chen and Johan Ferret and Justin Chiu and Justin Mao-Jones and Katherine Lee and Kathy Yu and Katie Millican and Lars Lowe Sjoesund and Lisa Lee and Lucas Dixon and Machel Reid and Maciej Mikuła and Mateo Wirth and Michael Sharman and Nikolai Chinaev and Nithum Thain and Olivier Bachem and Oscar Chang and Oscar Wahltinez and Paige Bailey and Paul Michel and Petko Yotov and Rahma Chaabouni and Ramona Comanescu and Reena Jana and Rohan Anil and Ross McIlroy and Ruibo Liu and Ryan Mullins and Samuel L Smith and Sebastian Borgeaud and Sertan Girgin and Sholto Douglas and Shree Pandya and Siamak Shakeri and Soham De and Ted Klimenko and Tom Hennigan and Vlad Feinberg and Wojciech Stokowiec and Yu-hui Chen and Zafarali Ahmed and Zhitao Gong and Tris Warkentin and Ludovic Peran and Minh Giang and Clément Farabet and Oriol Vinyals and Jeff Dean and Koray Kavukcuoglu and Demis Hassabis and Zoubin Ghahramani and Douglas Eck and Joelle Barral and Fernando Pereira and Eli Collins and Armand Joulin and Noah Fiedel and Evan Senter and Alek Andreev and Kathleen Kenealy},
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}


@misc{naseem2026polarbenchmarkmultilingualmulticultural,

      title={POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization}, 

      author={Usman Naseem and Robert Geislinger and Juan Ren and Sarah Kohail and Rudy Garrido Veliz and P Sam Sahil and Yiran Zhang and Marco Antonio Stranisci and Idris Abdulmumin and Özge Alacam and Cengiz Acartürk and Aisha Jabr and Saba Anwar and Abinew Ali Ayele and Simona Frenda and Alessandra Teresa Cignarella and Elena Tutubalina and Oleg Rogov and Aung Kyaw Htet and Xintong Wang and Surendrabikram Thapa and Kritesh Rauniyar and Tanmoy Chakraborty and Arfeen Zeeshan and Dheeraj Kodati and Satya Keerthi and Sahar Moradizeyveh and Firoj Alam and Arid Hasan and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Ye Kyaw Thu and Shantipriya Parida and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Lilian Wanzare and Nelson Odhiambo Onyango and Clemencia Siro and Jane Wanjiru Kimani and Ibrahim Said Ahmad and Adem Chanie Ali and Martin Semmann and Chris Biemann and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Seid Muhie Yimam},

      year={2026},

      eprint={2505.20624},

      archivePrefix={arXiv},

      primaryClass={cs.CL},

      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20624}, 

}


@inproceedings{naseem-etal-2026-polar,

  title     = {{S}em{E}val-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization},

  author    = {Naseem, Usman and

               Geislinger, Robert and

               Ren, Juan and

               Kohail, Sarah and

               Garrido Veliz, Rudy and

               Sam Sahil, P and

               Zhang, Yiran and

               Stranisci, Marco Antonio and

               Abdulmumin, Idris and

               Alacam, {\"O}zge and

               Acart{\"u}rk, Cengiz and

               Jabr, Aisha and

               Anwar, Saba and

               Ayele, Abinew Ali and

               Tutubalina, Elena and

               Htet, Aung Kyaw and

               Wang, Xintong and

               Thapa, Surendrabikram and

               Chakraborty, Tanmoy and

               Kodati, Dheeraj and

               Moradizeyveh, Sahar and

               Alam, Firoj and

               Thu, Ye Kyaw and

               Parida, Shantipriya and

               Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub and

               Onyango, Nelson Odhiambo and

               Siro, Clemencia and

               Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and

               Wanzare, Lilian and

               Ali, Adem Chanie and

               Semmann, Martin and

               Biemann, Chris and

               Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and

               Yimam, Seid Muhie},

  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2026)},

  year      = {2026},

  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

}