IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation

Vikram Singh, Sunny Narayan, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya


Abstract
This paper describes our system participation in the SemEval-2017 Task 8 ‘RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours’. The objective of this task was to predict the stance and veracity of the underlying rumour. We propose a supervised classification approach employing several lexical, content and twitter specific features for learning. Evaluation shows promising results for both the problems.
Anthology ID:
S17-2087
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
497–501
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S17-2087
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2087
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Cite (ACL):
Vikram Singh, Sunny Narayan, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2017. IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 497–501, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation (Singh et al., SemEval 2017)
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