{"id":28612,"date":"2023-08-21T18:14:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/publication\/kinitveraai-at-semeval-2023-task-3-simple-yet-powerful-multilingual-fine-tuning-for-persuasion-techniques-detection\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:09:45","slug":"kinitveraai-at-semeval-2023-task-3-simple-yet-powerful-multilingual-fine-tuning-for-persuasion-techniques-detection","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/publikacia\/kinitveraai-at-semeval-2023-task-3-simple-yet-powerful-multilingual-fine-tuning-for-persuasion-techniques-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"KInITVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Simple yet Powerful Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Persuasion Techniques Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>This paper presents the best-performing solution to the SemEval 2023 Task 3 on the subtask 3 dedicated to persuasion techniques detection. Due to a high multilingual character of the input data and a large number of 23 predicted labels (causing a lack of labelled data for some language-label combinations), we opted for fine-tuning pre-trained transformerbased language models. Conducting multiple experiments, we find the best configuration, which consists of large multilingual model (XLM-RoBERTa large) trained jointly on  all input data, with carefully calibrated confidence thresholds for seen and surprise languages separately. Our final system performed the best on 6 out of 9 languages (including two surprise languages) and achieved highly competitive results on the remaining three languages. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2023.semeval-1.86\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2023.semeval-1.86<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Cite: Hromadka, T., Smole\u0148, T., Remis, T., Pecher, B., &amp; Srba, I. (2023). Kinitveraai at semeval-2023 task 3: Simple yet powerful multilingual fine-tuning for persuasion techniques detection. 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