CodeForTheChange at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Skip-Thoughts for Fact Checking in Community Question Answering

Adithya Avvaru, Anupam Pandey


Abstract
The strengths of the scalable gradient tree boosting algorithm, XGBoost and distributed sentence encoder, Skip-Thought Vectors are not explored yet by the cQA research community. We tried to apply and combine these two effective methods for finding factual nature of the questions and answers. The work also include experimentation with other popular classifier models like AdaBoost Classifier, DecisionTree Classifier, RandomForest Classifier, ExtraTrees Classifier, XGBoost Classifier and Multi-layer Neural Network. In this paper, we present the features used, approaches followed for feature engineering, models experimented with and finally the results.
Anthology ID:
S19-2199
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1138–1143
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2199
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2199
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Adithya Avvaru and Anupam Pandey. 2019. CodeForTheChange at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Skip-Thoughts for Fact Checking in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1138–1143, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CodeForTheChange at SemEval-2019 Task 8: Skip-Thoughts for Fact Checking in Community Question Answering (Avvaru & Pandey, SemEval 2019)
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