LynyrdSkynyrd at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Semi-Supervised Learning for Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets

Abhilasha Sancheti, Kushal Chawla, Gaurav Verma


Abstract
In this work, we describe our system for WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English tweets. Our system is an ensemble of various machine learning methods, leveraging both traditional feature-based classifiers as well as recent advances in pre-trained language models that help in capturing the syntactic, semantic, and contextual features from the tweets. We further employ pseudo-labelling to incorporate the unlabelled Twitter data released on the pandemic. Our best performing model achieves an F1-score of 0.9179 on the provided validation set and 0.8805 on the blind test-set.
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2020.wnut-1.65
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Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020)
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November
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2020
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Online
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Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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444–449
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.wnut-1.65
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10.18653/v1/2020.wnut-1.65
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Abhilasha Sancheti, Kushal Chawla, and Gaurav Verma. 2020. LynyrdSkynyrd at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Semi-Supervised Learning for Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020), pages 444–449, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LynyrdSkynyrd at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Semi-Supervised Learning for Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets (Sancheti et al., WNUT 2020)
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