Genevieve Gorrell, E. Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Ahmet Aker, A. Zubiaga, Kalina Bontcheva, Leon Derczynski
{"title":"SemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours","authors":"Genevieve Gorrell, E. Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Ahmet Aker, A. Zubiaga, Kalina Bontcheva, Leon Derczynski","doi":"10.18653/v1/S19-2147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S19-2147","url":null,"abstract":"Since the first RumourEval shared task in 2017, interest in automated claim validation has greatly increased, as the danger of “fake news” has become a mainstream concern. However automated support for rumour verification remains in its infancy. It is therefore important that a shared task in this area continues to provide a focus for effort, which is likely to increase. Rumour verification is characterised by the need to consider evolving conversations and news updates to reach a verdict on a rumour’s veracity. As in RumourEval 2017 we provided a dataset of dubious posts and ensuing conversations in social media, annotated both for stance and veracity. The social media rumours stem from a variety of breaking news stories and the dataset is expanded to include Reddit as well as new Twitter posts. There were two concrete tasks; rumour stance prediction and rumour verification, which we present in detail along with results achieved by participants. We received 22 system submissions (a 70% increase from RumourEval 2017) many of which used state-of-the-art methodology to tackle the challenges involved.","PeriodicalId":109174,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116713062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Frequency Analysis Interpolation for Hate in Speech Detection","authors":"Óscar Garibo i Orts","doi":"10.18653/v1/S19-2081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S19-2081","url":null,"abstract":"This document describes a text change of representation approach to the task of Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter, as part of SemEval-2019 1 . The task is divided in two sub-tasks. Sub-task A consists in classifying tweets as being hateful or not hateful, whereas sub-task B requires fine tuning the classification by classifying the hateful tweets as being directed to single individuals or generic, if the tweet is aggressive or not. Our approach consists of a change of the space of representation of text into statistical descriptors which characterize the text. In addition, dimensional reduction is performed to 6 characteristics per class in order to make the method suitable for a Big Data environment. Frequency Analysis Interpolation (FAI) is the approach we use to achieve rank 5th in Spanish language and 9th in English language in sub-task B in both cases.","PeriodicalId":109174,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121071324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GenSMT at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Contextual Emotion Detection in tweets using multi task generic approach","authors":"Dumitru Bogdan","doi":"10.18653/v1/S19-2037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S19-2037","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe our participation in SemEval-2019 Task 3: EmoContext - A Shared Task on Contextual Emotion Detection in Text. We propose a three layer model with a generic, multi-purpose approach that without any task specific optimizations achieve competitive results (f1 score of 0.7096) in the EmoContext task. We describe our development strategy in detail along with an exposition of our results.","PeriodicalId":109174,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115411468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}