4 papers
CLaC at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Response Clarity Detection in Political Discourse
Nawar Turk, Lucas Miquet-Westphal, Leila Kosseim
In this paper, we present our system for SemEval-2026 Task 6 (CLARITY) on response clarity and evasion detection in question-answer pairs from U.S. presidential interviews, compari…
On the Influence of Discourse Relations in Persuasive Texts
Nawar Turk, Sevag Kaspar, Leila Kosseim
This paper investigates the relationship between Persuasion Techniques (PTs) and Discourse Relations (DRs) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering. Since…
CLaC at DISRPT 2025: Hierarchical Adapters for Cross-Framework Multi-lingual Discourse Relation Classification
Nawar Turk, Daniele Comitogianni, Leila Kosseim
We present our submission to Task 3 (Discourse Relation Classification) of the DISRPT 2025 shared task. Task 3 introduces a unified set of 17 discourse relation labels across 39 co…
CLaC at SemEval-2025 Task 6: A Multi-Architecture Approach for Corporate Environmental Promise Verification
Nawar Turk, Eeham Khan, Leila Kosseim
This paper presents our approach to the SemEval-2025 Task~6 (PromiseEval), which focuses on verifying promises in corporate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reports. We…