6 papers
Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News
Tarek Mahmoud, Veronika Solopova, Premtim Sahitaj +7
Temporal language does more than place events on a timeline. In news discourse, references to the past, present, and future can function as rhetorical devices that shape interpreta…
Fine-tuning with Hierarchical Prompting for Robust Propaganda Classification Across Annotation Schemas
Lukas Stähelin, Veronika Solopova, Max Upravitelev +6
Propaganda detection in social media is challenging due to noisy, short texts and low annotation agreements. We introduce a new intent-focused taxonomy of propaganda techniques and…
From Articles to Premises: Building PrimeFacts, an Extraction Methodology and Resource for Fact-Checking Evidence
Premtim Sahitaj, Jawan Kolanowski, Ariana Sahitaj +7
Fact-checking articles encode rich supporting evidence and reasoning, yet this evidence remains largely inaccessible to automated verification systems due to unstructured presentat…
Multiperspectivity as a Resource for Narrative Similarity Prediction
Max Upravitelev, Veronika Solopova, Jing Yang +4
Predicting narrative similarity can be understood as an inherently interpretive task: different, equally valid readings of the same text can produce divergent interpretations and t…
XplaiNLP at CheckThat! 2025: Multilingual Subjectivity Detection with Finetuned Transformers and Prompt-Based Inference with Large Language Models
Ariana Sahitaj, Jiaao Li, Pia Wenzel Neves +5
This notebook reports the XplaiNLP submission to the CheckThat! 2025 shared task on multilingual subjectivity detection. We evaluate two approaches: (1) supervised fine-tuning of t…
Hybrid Annotation for Propaganda Detection: Integrating LLM Pre-Annotations with Human Intelligence
Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Veronika Solopova +3
Propaganda detection on social media remains challenging due to task complexity and limited high-quality labeled data. This paper introduces a novel framework that combines human e…