Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: SemEval-2026 Task 10 is focused on conspiracy detection.Specifically, the goal is to detect whether a Reddit comment expresses a conspiracy belief.Our submitted mdok-style system utilizes data augmentation and self-training (to cope with a rather small amount of training data) to finetune the Qwen3-32B model for a binary text-classification task.The submitted system is very competitive, ranking in the 85th percentile (8th out of 52 submissions).The results shown that our approach, which originated in machine-generated text detection, can be used for conspiracy detection as well.
Author: Dominik Macko
Institution: Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166829416