ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content

Maram Hasanain, Md. Arid Hasan, Fatema Ahmad, Reem Suwaileh, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Wajdi Zaghouani, Firoj Alam


Abstract
We present an overview of the second edition of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. In this edition, ArAIEval offers two tasks: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification in tweets and news articles, and (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes. A total of 14 teams participated in the final evaluation phase, with 6 and 9 teams participating in Tasks 1 and 2, respectively. Finally, 11 teams submitted system description papers. Across both tasks, we observed that fine-tuning transformer models such as AraBERT was at the core of the majority of the participating systems. We provide a description of the task setup, including a description of the dataset construction and the evaluation setup. We further provide a brief overview of the participating systems. All datasets and evaluation scripts are released to the research community. We hope this will enable further research on these important tasks in Arabic.
Anthology ID:
2024.arabicnlp-1.44
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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456–466
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.44
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.44
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Maram Hasanain, Md. Arid Hasan, Fatema Ahmad, Reem Suwaileh, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Wajdi Zaghouani, and Firoj Alam. 2024. ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 456–466, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content (Hasanain et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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