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This study compares Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) features with Sentence Transformers for detecting writers&#39; stances—favorable, opposing, or neutral—towards three significant topics: COVID-19 vaccine, digital transformation, and women empowerment. Through empirical evaluation, we demonstrate that Sentence Transformers outperform TF-IDF features across various experimental setups. Our team, dzStance, participated in a stance detection competition, achieving the 13th position (74.91%) among 15 teams in Women Empowerment, 10th (73.43%) in COVID Vaccine, and 12th (66.97%) in Digital Transformation. Overall, our team&#39;s performance ranked 13th (71.77%) among all participants. Notably, our approach achieved promising F1-scores, highlighting its effectiveness in identifying writers&#39; stances on diverse topics. These results underscore the potential of Sentence Transformers to enhance stance detection models for addressing critical societal issues.

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dzStance at StanceEval2024: Arabic Stance Detection based on Sentence Transformers

women empowerment

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opposing

favorable

writers' stances

term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf)

covid-19 vaccine

sentence transformers

digital transformation

machine learning

stance detection

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This study compares Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) features with Sentence Transformers for detecting writers' stances—favorable, opposing, or neutral—towards three significant topics: COVID-19 vaccine, digital transformation, and women empowerment. Through empirical evaluation, we demonstrate that Sentence Transformers outperform TF-IDF features across various experimental setups. Our team, dzStance, participated in a stance detection competition, achieving the 13th position (74.91%) among 15 teams in Women Empowerment, 10th (73.43%) in COVID Vaccine, and 12th (66.97%) in Digital Transformation. Overall, our team's performance ranked 13th (71.77%) among all participants. Notably, our approach achieved promising F1-scores, highlighting its effectiveness in identifying writers' stances on diverse topics. These results underscore the potential of Sentence Transformers to enhance stance detection models for addressing critical societal issues.

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This paper presents our submission for the Stance Detection in Arabic Language (StanceEval) 2024 shared task conducted by Team SMASH of the University of Edinburgh. We evaluated the performance of various BERT-based and large language models (LLMs). MARBERT demonstrates superior performance among the BERT-based models, achieving F1 and macro-F1 scores of 0.570 and 0.770, respectively. In contrast, Command~R model outperforms all models with the highest overall F1 score of 0.661 and macro F1 score of 0.820.

SMASH at StanceEval 2024: Prompt Engineering LLMs for Arabic Stance Detection

In NLP, stance detection identifies a writer's position or viewpoint on a particular topic or entity from their text and social media activity, which includes preferences and relationships. Researchers have been exploring techniques and approaches to develop effective stance detection systems. Large language models' latest advancements offer a more effective solution to the stance detection problem. This paper proposes fine-tuning the newly released 8B-parameter Llama 3 model from Meta GenAI for Arabic text stance detection. The proposed method was ranked ninth in the StanceEval 2024 Task on stance detection in Arabic language achieving a Macro average $F_1$ score of 0.7647.

CUFE at StanceEval2024: Arabic Stance Detection with Fine-Tuned Llama-3 Model

Stance detection, an evolving task in natural language processing, involves understanding a writer's perspective on certain topics by analyzing his written text and interactions online, especially on social media platforms. In this paper, we outline our submission to the StanceEval task, leveraging the Mawqif dataset featured in The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. Our task is to detect writers' stances (Favor, Against, or None) towards three selected topics (COVID-19 vaccine, digital transformation, and women empowerment). We present our approach primarily relying on a contrastive loss ensemble strategy. Our proposed approach achieved an F1-score of 0.8438 and ranked first in the stanceEval 2024 task. The code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/MBadran2000/Mawqif.git

AlexUNLP-BH at StanceEval2024: Multiple Contrastive Losses Ensemble Strategy with Multi-Task Learning For Stance Detection in Arabic

It is essential to understand the attitude of individuals towards specific topics in Arabic language for tasks like sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and social media monitoring. However, the diversity of the linguistic characteristics of the Arabic language presents several challenges to accurately evaluate the stance. In this study, we suggest ensemble approach to tackle these challenges. Our method combines different classifiers using the voting method. Through multiple experiments, we prove the effectiveness of our method achieving significant F1-score value equal to 0.7027. Our findings contribute to promoting NLP and offer treasured enlightenment for applications like sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and social media monitoring.

ISHFMG_TUN at StanceEval: Ensemble Method for Arabic Stance Evaluation System

This paper outlines our approach to the StanceEval 2024- Arabic Stance Evaluation shared task. The goal of the task was to identify the stance, one out of three (Favor, Against or None) towards tweets based on three topics, namely- COVID-19 Vaccine, Digital Transformation and Women Empowerment. Our approach consists of fine-tuning BERT-based models efficiently for both, Single-Task Learning as well as Multi-Task Learning, the details of which are discussed. Finally, an ensemble was implemented on the best-performing models to maximize overall performance. We achieved a macro F1 score of 78.02% in this shared task. Our codebase is available publicly.

PICT at StanceEval2024: Stance Detection in Arabic using Ensemble of Large Language Models

In this paper, we present a high-performing model for Arabic stance detection on the STANCEEVAL2024 shared task part of ARABICNLP2024. Our model leverages ARABERTV1; a pre-trained Arabic language model, within a single-task learning framework. We fine-tuned the model on stance detection data for three specific topics: COVID19 vaccine, digital transformation, and women empowerment, extracted from the MAWQIF corpus. In terms of performance, our model achieves 73.30 macro-F1 score for women empowerment, 70.51 for digital transformation, and 64.55 for COVID-19 vaccine detection.

TAO at StanceEval2024 Shared Task: Arabic Stance Detection using AraBERT

We present WojoodNER-$2024$, the second Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. In WojoodNER-$2024$, we focus on fine-grained Arabic NER. We provided participants with a new Arabic fine-grained NER dataset called Wojoodfine, annotated with subtypes of entities. WojoodNER-$2024$ encompassed three subtasks: ($i$) Closed-Track Flat Fine-Grained NER, ($ii$) Closed-Track Nested Fine-Grained NER, and ($iii$) an Open-Track NER for the Israeli War on Gaza. A total of $43$ unique teams registered for this shared task. Five teams participated in the Flat Fine-Grained Subtask, among which two teams tackled the Nested Fine-Grained Subtask and one team participated in the Open-Track NER Subtask. The winning teams achieved $F_1$ scores of $91%$ and $92%$ in the Flat Fine-Grained and Nested Fine-Grained Subtasks, respectively. The sole team in the Open-Track Subtask achieved an $F_1$ score of $73.7%$.

WojoodNER 2024: The Second Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task

This paper presents our system ``muNERa'', submitted to the WojoodNER 2024 shared task at the second ArabicNLP conference. We participated in two subtasks, the flat and nested fine-grained NER sub-tasks (1 and 2). muNERa achieved first place in the nested NER sub-task and second place in the flat NER sub-task. The system is based on the TANL framework cite{paolini2021structured}, by using a sequence-to-sequence structured language translation approach to model both tasks. We utilize the pre-trained AraT5textsubscript{v2}-base model as the base model for the TANL framework. The best-performing muNERa model achieves 91.07% and 90.26% for the F-1 scores on the test sets for the nested and flat subtasks, respectively.

muNERa at WojoodNER 2024: Multi-tasking NER Approach

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on extracting entities such as names of people, organizations, locations, and dates from text. Despite significant advancements due to deep learning and transformer architectures like BERT, NER still faces challenges, particularly in low-resource languages like Arabic. This paper presents a BERT-based NER system that utilizes a two-channel parallel hybrid neural network with an attention mechanism specifically designed for the NER Shared Task 2024. In the competition, our approach ranked second by scoring 90.13% in micro-F1 on the test set. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining advanced neural network architectures with contextualized word embeddings in improving NER performance for Arabic.

Addax at WojoodNER 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for Arabic Named Entity Recognition

In this paper, we present our submission for the WojoodNER 2024 Shared Tasks addressing flat and nested sub-tasks (1, 2). We experiment with three different approaches. We train (i) an Arabic fine-tuned version of BLOOMZ-7b-mt, GEMMA-7b, and AraBERTv2 on multi-label token classifications task; (ii) two AraBERTv2 models, on main types and sub-types respectively; and (iii) one model for main types and four for the four sub-types. Based on the Wojood NER 2024 test set results, the three fine-tuned models performed similarly with AraBERTv2 favored (F1: Flat=.8780 Nested=.9040). The five model approach performed slightly better (F1: Flat=.8782 Nested=.9043).

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