  This paper describes our submissions to SemEval 2020 Task 11: Detection of
Propaganda Techniques in News Articles for each of the two subtasks of Span
Identification and Technique Classification. We make use of pre-trained BERT
language model enhanced with tagging techniques developed for the task of Named
Entity Recognition (NER), to develop a system for identifying propaganda spans
in the text. For the second subtask, we incorporate contextual features in a
pre-trained RoBERTa model for the classification of propaganda techniques. We
were ranked 5th in the propaganda technique classification subtask.
