DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Detecting Subjectivity via Transfer-Learning and Corrective Data Augmentation
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| author | Heil, Maximilian Bang, Dionne |
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| contents | This paper presents our submission to Task 1, Subjectivity Detection, of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. We investigate the effectiveness of transfer-learning and stylistic data augmentation to improve classification of subjective and objective sentences in English news text. Our approach contrasts fine-tuning of pre-trained encoders and transfer-learning of fine-tuned transformer on related tasks. We also introduce a controlled augmentation pipeline using GPT-4o to generate paraphrases in predefined subjectivity styles. To ensure label and style consistency, we employ the same model to correct and refine the generated samples. Results show that transfer-learning of specified encoders outperforms fine-tuning general-purpose ones, and that carefully curated augmentation significantly enhances model robustness, especially in detecting subjective content. Our official submission placed us $16^{th}$ of 24 participants. Overall, our findings underscore the value of combining encoder specialization with label-consistent augmentation for improved subjectivity detection. Our code is available at https://github.com/dsgt-arc/checkthat-2025-subject. |
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| spellingShingle | DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Detecting Subjectivity via Transfer-Learning and Corrective Data Augmentation Heil, Maximilian Bang, Dionne Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence This paper presents our submission to Task 1, Subjectivity Detection, of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. We investigate the effectiveness of transfer-learning and stylistic data augmentation to improve classification of subjective and objective sentences in English news text. Our approach contrasts fine-tuning of pre-trained encoders and transfer-learning of fine-tuned transformer on related tasks. We also introduce a controlled augmentation pipeline using GPT-4o to generate paraphrases in predefined subjectivity styles. To ensure label and style consistency, we employ the same model to correct and refine the generated samples. Results show that transfer-learning of specified encoders outperforms fine-tuning general-purpose ones, and that carefully curated augmentation significantly enhances model robustness, especially in detecting subjective content. Our official submission placed us $16^{th}$ of 24 participants. Overall, our findings underscore the value of combining encoder specialization with label-consistent augmentation for improved subjectivity detection. Our code is available at https://github.com/dsgt-arc/checkthat-2025-subject. |
| title | DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Detecting Subjectivity via Transfer-Learning and Corrective Data Augmentation |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06189 |