12 papers
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +31
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labe…
Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin +6
Disagreement in annotation is a common phenomenon in the development of NLP datasets and serves as a valuable source of insight. While majority voting remains the dominant strategy…
Enhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Dawit Ketema Gete, Abinew Ali Ayele +4
Developing and integrating emotion-understanding models are essential for a wide range of human-computer interaction tasks, including customer feedback analysis, marketing research…
POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +40
Online polarization poses a growing challenge for democratic discourse, yet most computational social science research remains monolingual, culturally narrow, or event-specific. We…
AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Ibrahim Said Ahmad +5
Language models built from various sources are the foundation of today's NLP progress. However, for many low-resource languages, the diversity of domains is often limited, more bia…
Silenced voices: social media polarization and women's marginalization in peacebuilding during the Northern Ethiopia War
Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele +2
This study examines the complex relationship between social media, polarization, and conflict, with a focus on digital peacebuilding and women's participation, using the Northern E…