@inproceedings{srivastava-etal-2017-dfki,
    title = "{DFKI}-{DKT} at {S}em{E}val-2017 Task 8: Rumour Detection and Classification using Cascading Heuristics",
    author = "Srivastava, Ankit  and
      Rehm, Georg  and
      Moreno Schneider, Julian",
    editor = "Bethard, Steven  and
      Carpuat, Marine  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.  and
      Cer, Daniel  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation ({S}em{E}val-2017)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/S17-2085/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S17-2085",
    pages = "486--490",
    abstract = "We describe our submissions for SemEval-2017 Task 8, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours. The Digital Curation Technologies (DKT) team at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) participated in two subtasks: Subtask A (determining the stance of a message) and Subtask B (determining veracity of a message, closed variant). In both cases, our implementation consisted of a Multivariate Logistic Regression (Maximum Entropy) classifier coupled with hand-written patterns and rules (heuristics) applied in a post-process cascading fashion. We provide a detailed analysis of the system performance and report on variants of our systems that were not part of the official submission."
}