NARNIA at NLP4IF-2021: Identification of Misinformation in COVID-19 Tweets Using BERTweet
Ankit Kumar, Naman Jhunjhunwala, Raksha Agarwal, Niladri Chatterjee
Abstract
The spread of COVID-19 has been accompanied with widespread misinformation on social media. In particular, Twitterverse has seen a huge increase in dissemination of distorted facts and figures. The present work aims at identifying tweets regarding COVID-19 which contains harmful and false information. We have experimented with a number of Deep Learning-based models, including different word embeddings, such as Glove, ELMo, among others. BERTweet model achieved the best overall F1-score of 0.881 and secured the third rank on the above task.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.nlp4if-1.14
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Anna Feldman, Giovanni Da San Martino, Chris Leberknight, Preslav Nakov
- Venue:
- NLP4IF
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 99–103
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/2021.nlp4if-1.14/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.nlp4if-1.14
- Cite (ACL):
- Ankit Kumar, Naman Jhunjhunwala, Raksha Agarwal, and Niladri Chatterjee. 2021. NARNIA at NLP4IF-2021: Identification of Misinformation in COVID-19 Tweets Using BERTweet. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda, pages 99–103, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NARNIA at NLP4IF-2021: Identification of Misinformation in COVID-19 Tweets Using BERTweet (Kumar et al., NLP4IF 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/2021.nlp4if-1.14.pdf