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MLEngineer at SemEval-2020 Task 7: BERT-Flair based Humor Detection Model (BFHumor)

  • Jordan University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

Task 7, Assessing the Funniness of Edited News Headlines, in the International Workshop SemEval2020 introduces two sub-tasks to predict the funniness values of edited news headlines from the Reddit website. This paper proposes the BFHumor model of the MLEngineer team that participates in both sub-tasks in this competition. The BFHumor's model is defined as a BERT-Flair based humor detection model that is a combination of different pre-trained models with various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) regressor is considered the primary pre-trained model in our approach, whereas Flair is the main NLP library. It is worth mentioning that the BFHumor model has been ranked 4th in sub-task1 with a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 0.51966, and it is 0.02 away from the first ranked model. Also, the team is ranked 12th in the sub-task2 with an accuracy of 0.62291, which is 0.05 away from the top-ranked model. Our results indicate that the BFHumor model is one of the top models for detecting humor in the text.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING 2020 - The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings of the 14th Workshop
EditorsAurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
PublisherInternational Committee for Computational Linguistics
Pages1041-1048
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148316
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020, co-located with COLING 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: 12 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings

Conference

Conference14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020, co-located with COLING 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/12/2013/12/20

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