Babak Loni


2019

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Tom Jumbo-Grumbo at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection with GloVe vectors and SVM
Chia-Lun Yeh | Babak Loni | Anne Schuth
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

In this paper, we describe our attempt to learn bias from news articles. From our experiments, it seems that although there is a correlation between publisher bias and article bias, it is challenging to learn bias directly from the publisher labels. On the other hand, using few manually-labeled samples can increase the accuracy metric from around 60% to near 80%. Our system is computationally inexpensive and uses several standard document representations in NLP to train an SVM or LR classifier. The system ranked 4th in the SemEval-2019 task. The code is released for reproducibility.