On Experiments of Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Polish and Russian Online News: Preliminary Study

Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Jakub Piskorski


Abstract
This paper reports on the results of preliminary experiments on the detection of persuasion techniques in online news in Polish and Russian, using a taxonomy of 23 persuasion techniques. The evaluation addresses different aspects, namely, the granularity of the persuasion technique category, i.e., coarse- (6 labels) versus fine-grained (23 labels), and the focus of the classification, i.e., at which level the labels are detected (subword, sentence, or paragraph). We compare the performance of mono- verus multi-lingual-trained state-of-the-art transformed-based models in this context.
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2023.bsnlp-1.18
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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023)
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
Editors:
Jakub Piskorski, Michał Marcińczuk, Preslav Nakov, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Senja Pollak, Pavel Přibáň, Piotr Rybak, Josef Steinberger, Roman Yangarber
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BSNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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155–164
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.bsnlp-1.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.bsnlp-1.18
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Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Nicolas Stefanovitch, and Jakub Piskorski. 2023. On Experiments of Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Polish and Russian Online News: Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023), pages 155–164, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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On Experiments of Detecting Persuasion Techniques in Polish and Russian Online News: Preliminary Study (Nikolaidis et al., BSNLP 2023)
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