Transformers at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Propaganda Fragment Detection Using Diversified BERT Architectures Based Ensemble Learning

Ekansh Verma, Vinodh Motupalli, Souradip Chakraborty


Abstract
In this paper, we present our approach for the ’Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles’ task as a part of the 2020 edition of International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. The specific objective of this task is to identify and extract the text segments in which propaganda techniques are used. We propose a multi-system deep learning framework that can be used to identify the presence of propaganda fragments in a news article and also deep dive into the diverse enhancements of BERT architecture which are part of the final solution. Our proposed final model gave an F1-score of 0.48 on the test dataset.
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2020.semeval-1.239
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona (online)
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Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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International Committee for Computational Linguistics
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1823–1828
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.239
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.239
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Ekansh Verma, Vinodh Motupalli, and Souradip Chakraborty. 2020. Transformers at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Propaganda Fragment Detection Using Diversified BERT Architectures Based Ensemble Learning. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1823–1828, Barcelona (online). International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
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Transformers at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Propaganda Fragment Detection Using Diversified BERT Architectures Based Ensemble Learning (Verma et al., SemEval 2020)
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