Kathlalu at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Comparative Analysis of Binary Classification Methods for Distinguishing Between Human and Machine-generated Text

Lujia Cao, Ece Lara Kilic, Katharina Will


Abstract
This paper investigates two methods for constructing a binary classifier to distinguish between human-generated and machine-generated text. The main emphasis is on a straightforward approach based on Zipf’s law, which, despite its simplicity, achieves a moderate level of performance. Additionally, the paper briefly discusses experimentation with the utilization of unigram word counts.
Anthology ID:
2024.semeval-1.62
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
Address:
Mexico City, Mexico
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
399–402
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URL:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2024.semeval-1.62/
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.62
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Cite (ACL):
Lujia Cao, Ece Lara Kilic, and Katharina Will. 2024. Kathlalu at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Comparative Analysis of Binary Classification Methods for Distinguishing Between Human and Machine-generated Text. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 399–402, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Kathlalu at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Comparative Analysis of Binary Classification Methods for Distinguishing Between Human and Machine-generated Text (Cao et al., SemEval 2024)
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