newsSweeper at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Context-Aware Rich Feature Representations for Propaganda Classification
Paramansh Singh, Siraj Sandhu, Subham Kumar, Ashutosh Modi · 2020
This paper describes our submissions to SemEval 2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles for each of the two subtasks of Span Identification and Technique Classification.We make use of pre-trained BERT language model enhanced with tagging techniques developed for the task of Named Entity Recognition (NER), to develop a system for identifying propaganda spans in the text.For the second subtask, we incorporate contextual features in a pre-trained RoBERTa model for the classification of propaganda techniques.We were ranked 5 th in the propaganda technique classification subtask.