HEVS-TUW at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Ensemble of Language Models and Rule-based Classifiers for Claims Identification and PICO Extraction

Anjani Dhrangadhariya, Wojciech Kusa, Henning Müller, Allan Hanbury

The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023) Task 8: causal medical claim identification and related pico frame extraction from social media posts Paper

TLDR: This paper describes the HEVS-TUW team submission to the SemEval-2023 Task 8: Causal Claims. We participated in two subtasks: (1) causal claims detection and (2) PIO identification. For subtask 1, we experimented with an ensemble of weakly supervised question detection and fine-tuned Transformer-ba
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Abstract: This paper describes the HEVS-TUW team submission to the SemEval-2023 Task 8: Causal Claims. We participated in two subtasks: (1) causal claims detection and (2) PIO identification. For subtask 1, we experimented with an ensemble of weakly supervised question detection and fine-tuned Transformer-based models. For subtask 2 of PIO frame extraction, we used a combination of deep representation learning and a rule-based approach. Our best model for subtask 1 ranks fourth with an F1-score of 65.77\%. It shows moderate benefit from ensembling models pre-trained on independent categories. The results for subtask 2 warrant further investigation for improvement.