PolERo: Studying Political Evasion in Romanian

arXiv:2609.02391 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference

Code: https://github.com/gabriel-stefan/polero

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pragmatics — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Data Augmentation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 1× in this paper
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• OpenLLM-Ro -- Technical Report on Open-source Romanian LLMs
• No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
• A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Medical Question Answering in Romanian

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