Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Code-Switched Social Media Text (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new study aims to detect propaganda in multiple languages using code-switching . social media platforms have made it easier for anyone to spread information to a wide audience . |
| Approach: | They propose to detect propaganda techniques in code-switched texts using a corpus of 1,030 texts . they propose to model multilinguality directly rather than using translation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method combines different languages within the same text, presenting a challenge for automatic systems. |
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