Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network

Jan Kowollik, Ahmet Aker


Abstract
In this paper we present our system for the FEVER Challenge. The task of this challenge is to verify claims by extracting information from Wikipedia. Our system has two parts. In the first part it performs a search for candidate sentences by treating the claims as query. In the second part it filters out noise from these candidates and uses the remaining ones to decide whether they support or refute or entail not enough information to verify the claim. We show that this system achieves a FEVER score of 0.3927 on the FEVER shared task development data set which is a 25.5% improvement over the baseline score.
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W18-5518
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER)
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November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Oana Cocarascu, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Arpit Mittal
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
114–118
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-5518
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-5518
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Jan Kowollik and Ahmet Aker. 2018. Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), pages 114–118, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network (Kowollik & Aker, EMNLP 2018)
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