Polarization Detection: A Hybrid Approach with AfroXLMR-Social and DeBERTa for Low- and High-Resource Settings

arXiv:2607.10312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of online polarization threatens social cohesion, necessitating robust automated detection systems that operate effectively across diverse linguistic contexts. This paper presents our system description for the POLAR Shared Task 2026, focusing on the detection and characterization of polarized discourse in English and Hausa. We propose a hybrid modeling strategy: for English binary detection, we leverage the monolingual stre...