Causal Connections: Leveraging Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Financial QA@FinCausal 2026
Team HSA_CORAL presents their submission to the FinCausal 2026 shared task, comparing three model families for cause-effect extraction from financial narratives via QA in English and Spanish. Supervised fine-tuning yielded the best results, with GPT-4.1 Mini achieving top scores on the English subtask and third on Spanish, highlighting the value of multilingual fine-tuning.
[2606.27446] Causal Connections: Leveraging Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Financial QA@FinCausal 2026
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Title:Causal Connections: Leveraging Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Financial QA@FinCausal 2026
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Abstract:This paper describes team HSA_CORAL's submission to the FinCausal 2026 shared task on extracting cause-effect relations from financial narratives via extractive question answering in English and Spanish. We compare three modeling families: (i) encoder-only token tagging with multilingual BERT, (ii) encoder-decoder generation with multilingual BART, and (iii) decoder-only LLMs (Llama 3.1 and GPT variants) using prompt refinement, few-shot demonstrations, and supervised fine-tuning. Across settings, prompting and few-shot examples yield competitive performance, while supervised fine-tuning provides the largest gains. Our best system, GPT-4.1 Mini fine-tuned on combined English and Spanish training data, achieves a tied highest score on the English subtask (score 4.8140) and ranks third on Spanish (score 4.7753) under the shared task's LLM-as-a-judge metric. Overall, the results highlight the value of task-specific adaptation and multilingual fine-tuning for cross-lingual transfer in financial causality QA.
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Cite as: arXiv:2606.27446 [cs.CL]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.27446
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Journal reference: Proceedings of the 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026) at LREC 2026, pp. 132-138, 2026
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From: Serhii Hamotskyi [view email] [v1] Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:17:04 UTC (99 KB)
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