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title = "Spider-{J}erusalem at {S}em{E}val-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection",
author = "Alabdulkarim, Amal and
Alhindi, Tariq",
editor = "May, Jonathan and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Herbelot, Aurelie and
Zhu, Xiaodan and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Mohammad, Saif M.",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/S19-2170",
doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-2170",
pages = "985--989",
abstract = "This paper describes our system for detecting hyperpartisan news articles, which was submitted for the shared task in SemEval 2019 on Hyperpartisan News Detection. We developed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model that uses TF-IDF of tokens, Language Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) features, and structural features such as number of paragraphs and hyperlink count in an article. The model was trained on 645 articles from two classes: mainstream and hyperpartisan. Our system was ranked seventeenth out of forty two participating teams in the binary classification task with an accuracy score of 0.742 on the blind test set (the accuracy of the top ranked system was 0.822). We provide a detailed description of our preprocessing steps, discussion of our experiments using different combinations of features, and analysis of our results and prediction errors.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Spider-Jerusalem at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
%A Alabdulkarim, Amal
%A Alhindi, Tariq
%Y May, Jonathan
%Y Shutova, Ekaterina
%Y Herbelot, Aurelie
%Y Zhu, Xiaodan
%Y Apidianaki, Marianna
%Y Mohammad, Saif M.
%S Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
%D 2019
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
%F alabdulkarim-alhindi-2019-spider
%X This paper describes our system for detecting hyperpartisan news articles, which was submitted for the shared task in SemEval 2019 on Hyperpartisan News Detection. We developed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model that uses TF-IDF of tokens, Language Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) features, and structural features such as number of paragraphs and hyperlink count in an article. The model was trained on 645 articles from two classes: mainstream and hyperpartisan. Our system was ranked seventeenth out of forty two participating teams in the binary classification task with an accuracy score of 0.742 on the blind test set (the accuracy of the top ranked system was 0.822). We provide a detailed description of our preprocessing steps, discussion of our experiments using different combinations of features, and analysis of our results and prediction errors.
%R 10.18653/v1/S19-2170
%U https://aclanthology.org/S19-2170
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S19-2170
%P 985-989
Markdown (Informal)
[Spider-Jerusalem at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection](https://aclanthology.org/S19-2170) (Alabdulkarim & Alhindi, SemEval 2019)
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