Tom Jumbo-Grumbo at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection with GloVe vectors and SVM

Chia-Lun Yeh, Babak Loni, Anne Schuth


Abstract
In this paper, we describe our attempt to learn bias from news articles. From our experiments, it seems that although there is a correlation between publisher bias and article bias, it is challenging to learn bias directly from the publisher labels. On the other hand, using few manually-labeled samples can increase the accuracy metric from around 60% to near 80%. Our system is computationally inexpensive and uses several standard document representations in NLP to train an SVM or LR classifier. The system ranked 4th in the SemEval-2019 task. The code is released for reproducibility.
Anthology ID:
S19-2187
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
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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1067–1071
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2187
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2187
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Chia-Lun Yeh, Babak Loni, and Anne Schuth. 2019. Tom Jumbo-Grumbo at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection with GloVe vectors and SVM. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1067–1071, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Tom Jumbo-Grumbo at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection with GloVe vectors and SVM (Yeh et al., SemEval 2019)
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