LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Comparing Feature-Based and Transformer-Based Approaches to Detect Funny Headlines
Bram Vanroy, Sofie Labat, Olha Kaminska, Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste
Abstract
This paper presents two different systems for the SemEval shared task 7 on Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines, sub-task 1, where the aim was to estimate the intensity of humor generated in edited headlines. Our first system is a feature-based machine learning system that combines different types of information (e.g. word embeddings, string similarity, part-of-speech tags, perplexity scores, named entity recognition) in a Nu Support Vector Regressor (NuSVR). The second system is a deep learning-based approach that uses the pre-trained language model RoBERTa to learn latent features in the news headlines that are useful to predict the funniness of each headline. The latter system was also our final submission to the competition and is ranked seventh among the 49 participating teams, with a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 0.5253.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.semeval-1.135
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona (online)
- Editors:
- Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- International Committee for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1033–1040
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.135
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.135
- Cite (ACL):
- Bram Vanroy, Sofie Labat, Olha Kaminska, Els Lefever, and Veronique Hoste. 2020. LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Comparing Feature-Based and Transformer-Based Approaches to Detect Funny Headlines. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1033–1040, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- LT3 at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Comparing Feature-Based and Transformer-Based Approaches to Detect Funny Headlines (Vanroy et al., SemEval 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2020.semeval-1.135.pdf
- Data
- Humicroedit