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Overview of MM-ArgFallacy2025 on Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification in Political Debates

We present an overview of the MM-ArgFallacy2025 shared task on Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification in Political Debates, co-located with the 12th Workshop …

eleonora-mancini

Interlocking-free Selective Rationalization Through Genetic-based Learning

A popular end-to-end architecture for selective rationalization is the select-then-predict pipeline, comprising a generator to extract highlights fed to a predictor. Such a …

federico-ruggeri

Assessing the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in the context of Evidence-based Claim Verification

Although LLMs have shown great performance on Mathematics and Coding related reasoning tasks, the reasoning capabilities of LLMs regarding other forms of reasoning are still an …

john-dougrez-lewis

Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains

Hate speech relies heavily on cultural influences, leading to varying individual interpretations. For that reason, we propose a Semantic Componential Analysis (SCA) framework for a …

katerina-korre

Overview of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity, fact-checking, claim normalization, and retrieval

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firoj-alam

Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed: Unpacking Implied Misogynistic Reasoning with Argumentation Theory-Driven Prompts

We propose misogyny detection as an Argumentative Reasoning task and we investigate the capacity of large language models (LLMs) to understand the implicit reasoning used to convey …

arianna-muti

A Grice-ful Examination of Offensive Language: Using NLP Methods to Assess the Co-operative Principle

Natural Language Processing (NLP) can provide tools for analyzing specific intricate language phenomena, such as offensiveness in language. In this study, we employ methods from …

katerina-korre

MAMKit: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit

Multimodal Argument Mining (MAM) is a recent area of research aiming to extend argument analysis and improve discourse understanding by incorporating multiple modalities. Initial …

eleonora-mancini

PejorativITy: Disambiguating Pejorative Epithets to Improve Misogyny Detection in Italian Tweets

Misogyny is often expressed through figurative language. Some neutral words can assume a negative connotation when functioning as pejorative epithets. Disambiguating the meaning of …

arianna-muti

A Corpus for Sentence-Level Subjectivity Detection on English News Articles

We develop novel annotation guidelines for sentence-level subjectivity detection, which are not limited to language-specific cues. We use our guidelines to collect NewsSD-ENG, a …

francesco-antici