Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble

04/12/2021

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by   Giorgos Tziafas, et al.

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This paper describes the TOKOFOU system, an ensemble model for misinformation detection tasks based on six different transformer-based pre-trained encoders, implemented in the context of the COVID-19 Infodemic Shared Task for English. We fine tune each model on each of the task's questions and aggregate their prediction scores using a majority voting approach. TOKOFOU obtains an overall F1 score of 89.7