ECNU at SemEval-2017 Task 8: Rumour Evaluation Using Effective Features and Supervised Ensemble Models

Feixiang Wang, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu


Abstract
This paper describes our submissions to task 8 in SemEval 2017, i.e., Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours. Given a rumoured tweet and a lot of reply tweets, the subtask A is to label whether these tweets are support, deny, query or comment, and the subtask B aims to predict the veracity (i.e., true, false, and unverified) with a confidence (in range of 0-1) of the given rumoured tweet. For both subtasks, we adopted supervised machine learning methods, incorporating rich features. Since training data is imbalanced, we specifically designed a two-step classifier to address subtask A .
Anthology ID:
S17-2086
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
Month:
August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
491–496
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S17-2086
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2086
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Feixiang Wang, Man Lan, and Yuanbin Wu. 2017. ECNU at SemEval-2017 Task 8: Rumour Evaluation Using Effective Features and Supervised Ensemble Models. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 491–496, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ECNU at SemEval-2017 Task 8: Rumour Evaluation Using Effective Features and Supervised Ensemble Models (Wang et al., SemEval 2017)
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