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KCLarity at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Encoder and Zero-Shot Approaches to Political Evasion Detection

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Archie Sage, Salvatore Greco

Abstract

This paper describes the KCLarity team's participation in CLARITY, a shared task at SemEval 2026 on classifying ambiguity and evasion techniques in political discourse. We investigate two modelling formulations: (i) directly predicting the clarity label, and (ii) predicting the evasion label and deriving clarity through the task taxonomy hierarchy. We further explore several auxiliary training variants and evaluate decoder-only models in a zero-shot setting under the evasion-first formulation. Overall, the two formulations yield comparable performance. Among encoder-based models, RoBERTa-large achieves the strongest results on the public test set, while zero-shot GPT-5.2 generalises better on the hidden evaluation set.

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arXiv ID: 2603.06552
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.CL
Published: 2026-03-06
Fetched: 2026-03-09 06:05

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