2018 EMNLP EMNLP 2018

Team UMBC-FEVER : Claim verification using Semantic Lexical Resources

Abstract

AbstractWe describe our system used in the 2018 FEVER shared task. The system employed a frame-based information retrieval approach to select Wikipedia sentences providing evidence and used a two-layer multilayer perceptron to classify a claim as correct or not. Our submission achieved a score of 0.3966 on the Evidence F1 metric with accuracy of 44.79%, and FEVER score of 0.2628 F1 points.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
📈 Trend Setter — Knowledge
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — semantic lexical resource
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — claim verification
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio