Dear All,
Thank you for your participation in the SemEval competition. We are thrilled to see multiple strong models. We would love to describe your best performing models in more depth in the final task paper and, if you are interested, to test them on a large Media Cloud dataset.
First, we ask you to
please fill out this brief Google Form to give us a 1-2 sentence description of your system, whether you plan to share the source code of your model (e.g., via Github, with a short description on how to use it), and to let us know if you plan to submit a paper. This will greatly help us in preparing the task paper and bringing attention to your work.
Second, if you are potentially interested in working with us on a Media Cloud dataset including full text of all labeled articles and tens of millions of unlabelled articles, please share your source code and declare your interest via the Google Form.
Third, the original released dataset averaged labels from multiple annotators. However, some items were labeled by many annotators, while many other items by just one annotator, hence giving a less accurate average label. Today, we are releasing
per-annotation data to supplement the previous data. We are excited to learn if this data and/or any of the individual scores (geographic, entity, narrative, etc. similarity) can be used to improve or better diagnose performance of your systems. For instance, we hypothesize that a simple model re-training on per-annotator data may improve your system’s performance. If you find time, we encourage you to test this hypothesis and report the result in your paper. If you decide to do so, please report two different Pearson correlations: one computed on the per-item test data and the other on the per-annotation test data. Please compute these two correlations for the two versions of your system, i.e., trained on per-annotation and per-item data. Overall, this will give you four different correlation values to assess the impact of averaged vs. per-annotator data.
Many thanks,
Task 8 Organizers