Accenture at CheckThat! 2021: Interesting claim identification and ranking with contextually sensitive lexical training data augmentation

no code implementations • 12 Jul 2021 • Evan Williams, Paul Rodrigues, Sieu Tran

Twitter training and test data were provided in English, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, and Bulgarian.

Data Augmentation

Accenture at CheckThat! 2020: If you say so: Post-hoc fact-checking of claims using transformer-based models

no code implementations • 5 Sep 2020 • Evan Williams, Paul Rodrigues, Valerie Novak

We utilized BERT and RoBERTa models to identify claims in social media text a professional fact-checker should review, and rank these in priority order for the fact-checker.

Fact Checking Translation