Legend at ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Technique Detection using a
  Language-Agnostic Text Representation Model
Olumide E. Ojo Olaronke O. Adebanji Hiram Calvo Damian O. Dieke Olumuyiwa E. Ojo Seye E. Akinsanya Tolulope O. Abiola Anna Feldman
In this paper, we share our best performing submission to the Arabic AI Tasks
Evaluation Challenge (ArAIEval) at ArabicNLP 2023. Our focus was on Task 1,
which involves identifying persuasion techniques in excerpts from tweets and
news articles. The persuasion technique in Arabic texts was detected using a
training loop with XLM-RoBERTa, a language-agnostic text representation model.
This approach proved to be potent, leveraging fine-tuning of a multilingual
language model. In our evaluation of the test set, we achieved a micro F1 score
of 0.64 for subtask A of the competition.