Team Kit Kittredge at SemEval-2019 Task 4: LSTM Voting System

Rebekah Cramerus, Tatjana Scheffler


Abstract
This paper describes the approach of team Kit Kittredge to SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection. The goal was binary classification of news articles into the categories of “biased” or “unbiased”. We had two software submissions: one a simple bag-of-words model, and the second an LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) neural network, which was trained on a subset of the original dataset selected by a voting system of other LSTMs. This method did not prove much more successful than the baseline, however, due to the models’ tendency to learn publisher-specific traits instead of general bias.
Anthology ID:
S19-2178
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1021–1025
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2178
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2178
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Rebekah Cramerus and Tatjana Scheffler. 2019. Team Kit Kittredge at SemEval-2019 Task 4: LSTM Voting System. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1021–1025, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Team Kit Kittredge at SemEval-2019 Task 4: LSTM Voting System (Cramerus & Scheffler, SemEval 2019)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/S19-2178.pdf