@inproceedings{malon-2018-team,
title = "Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at {FEVER}",
author = "Malon, Christopher",
editor = "Thorne, James and
Vlachos, Andreas and
Cocarascu, Oana and
Christodoulopoulos, Christos and
Mittal, Arpit",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and {VER}ification ({FEVER})",
month = nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5517",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5517",
pages = "109--113",
abstract = "We develop a system for the FEVER fact extraction and verification challenge that uses a high precision entailment classifier based on transformer networks pretrained with language modeling, to classify a broad set of potential evidence. The precision of the entailment classifier allows us to enhance recall by considering every statement from several articles to decide upon each claim. We include not only the articles best matching the claim text by TFIDF score, but read additional articles whose titles match named entities and capitalized expressions occurring in the claim text. The entailment module evaluates potential evidence one statement at a time, together with the title of the page the evidence came from (providing a hint about possible pronoun antecedents). In preliminary evaluation, the system achieves .5736 FEVER score, .6108 label accuracy, and .6485 evidence F1 on the FEVER shared task test set.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="malon-2018-team">
<titleInfo>
<title>Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at FEVER</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Christopher</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Malon</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2018-11</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER)</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">James</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Thorne</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Andreas</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Vlachos</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Oana</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Cocarascu</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Christos</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Christodoulopoulos</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Arpit</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Mittal</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Brussels, Belgium</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>We develop a system for the FEVER fact extraction and verification challenge that uses a high precision entailment classifier based on transformer networks pretrained with language modeling, to classify a broad set of potential evidence. The precision of the entailment classifier allows us to enhance recall by considering every statement from several articles to decide upon each claim. We include not only the articles best matching the claim text by TFIDF score, but read additional articles whose titles match named entities and capitalized expressions occurring in the claim text. The entailment module evaluates potential evidence one statement at a time, together with the title of the page the evidence came from (providing a hint about possible pronoun antecedents). In preliminary evaluation, the system achieves .5736 FEVER score, .6108 label accuracy, and .6485 evidence F1 on the FEVER shared task test set.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">malon-2018-team</identifier>
<identifier type="doi">10.18653/v1/W18-5517</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/W18-5517</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2018-11</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>109</start>
<end>113</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at FEVER
%A Malon, Christopher
%Y Thorne, James
%Y Vlachos, Andreas
%Y Cocarascu, Oana
%Y Christodoulopoulos, Christos
%Y Mittal, Arpit
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER)
%D 2018
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
%F malon-2018-team
%X We develop a system for the FEVER fact extraction and verification challenge that uses a high precision entailment classifier based on transformer networks pretrained with language modeling, to classify a broad set of potential evidence. The precision of the entailment classifier allows us to enhance recall by considering every statement from several articles to decide upon each claim. We include not only the articles best matching the claim text by TFIDF score, but read additional articles whose titles match named entities and capitalized expressions occurring in the claim text. The entailment module evaluates potential evidence one statement at a time, together with the title of the page the evidence came from (providing a hint about possible pronoun antecedents). In preliminary evaluation, the system achieves .5736 FEVER score, .6108 label accuracy, and .6485 evidence F1 on the FEVER shared task test set.
%R 10.18653/v1/W18-5517
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-5517
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-5517
%P 109-113
Markdown (Informal)
[Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at FEVER](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5517) (Malon, EMNLP 2018)
ACL
- Christopher Malon. 2018. Team Papelo: Transformer Networks at FEVER. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), pages 109–113, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.