Polarization Detection: A Hybrid Approach with AfroXLMR-Social and DeBERTa for Low- and High-Resource Settings
This paper presents the system description for the POLAR Shared Task 2026, focusing on the detection and characterization of polarized discourse in English and Hausa, and proposes a hybrid modeling strategy that leverages the monolingual strength of DeBERTa for English binary detection and Hausa monolingual strength fo...