Challenge: a new task is needed to detect propaganda in news articles . the need for communication has increased in online social media platforms . a proposed solution to the problem of sentence-level propaganda classification is ranked 12th .
Approach: They propose to build a binary classifier able to provide corresponding propaganda labels . their solution ranks 12th among 26 teams in the NLP4IF-2019 Shared Task SLC .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baseline approach and the winning system on a similar task.

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