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Register a new userDetecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized Embeddings
الكشف عن المعلومات الخاطئة متعددة اللغات Covid-19 بشأن وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي عبر المدينات السياقية
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نقدم مصنفات التعلم الآلية لتحديد المعلومات الخاطئة COVID-19 تلقائيا على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي بثلاث لغات: الإنجليزية، البلغارية، والعربية.قمنا بمقارنة 4 نماذج تعليمية متعددة الأيتاكف لهذه المهمة ووجدت أن نموذج مدرب مع بيرت الإنجليزية يحقق أفضل النتائج للغة الإنجليزية، وتحقق بيرت متعددة اللغات أفضل النتائج عن البلغارية والعربية.لقد جربنا لقطة صفرية، وقلة طرية، والظروف المستهدفة فقط لتقييم تأثير بيانات التدريب على اللغة المستهدفة حول أداء المصنف، وفهم قدرات نماذج مختلفة للتعميم عبر اللغات في الكشف عن المعلومات الخاطئة عبر الإنترنت.تم إجراء هذا العمل كإرسال إلى المهمة المشتركة، NLP4IF 2021: مكافحة المعكرات المعاكسة 19.حققت أفضل طرازاتنا ثاني أفضل نتائج اختبار التقييم في البلغارية والعربية بين جميع الفرق المشاركة وحصلت على درجات تنافسية للغة الإنجليزية.
We present machine learning classifiers to automatically identify COVID-19 misinformation on social media in three languages: English, Bulgarian, and Arabic. We compared 4 multitask learning models for this task and found that a model trained with English BERT achieves the best results for English, and multilingual BERT achieves the best results for Bulgarian and Arabic. We experimented with zero shot, few shot, and target-only conditions to evaluate the impact of target-language training data on classifier performance, and to understand the capabilities of different models to generalize across languages in detecting misinformation online. This work was performed as a submission to the shared task, NLP4IF 2021: Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic. Our best models achieved the second best evaluation test results for Bulgarian and Arabic among all the participating teams and obtained competitive scores for English.
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