DOMLIN at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Automated Fact Checking exploiting Ratings in Community Question Answering Forums

Dominik Stammbach, Stalin Varanasi, Guenter Neumann


Abstract
In the following, we describe our system developed for the Semeval2019 Task 8. We fine-tuned a BERT checkpoint on the qatar living forum dump and used this checkpoint to train a number of models. Our hand-in for subtask A consists of a fine-tuned classifier from this BERT checkpoint. For subtask B, we first have a classifier deciding whether a comment is factual or non-factual. If it is factual, we retrieve intra-forum evidence and using this evidence, have a classifier deciding the comment’s veracity. We trained this classifier on ratings which we crawled from qatarliving.com
Anthology ID:
S19-2201
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1149–1154
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2201
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2201
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Cite (ACL):
Dominik Stammbach, Stalin Varanasi, and Guenter Neumann. 2019. DOMLIN at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Automated Fact Checking exploiting Ratings in Community Question Answering Forums. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1149–1154, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DOMLIN at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Automated Fact Checking exploiting Ratings in Community Question Answering Forums (Stammbach et al., SemEval 2019)
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