ukparliamentBERT

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Fine-tuned BERT trained to identify political party from speech in the UK Parliament. Trained with Labour/Conservative speeches using the hansard dataset 2000-2020

Model Details

• License: MIT
• Finetuned from model : BERT

Model Sources

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• Repository: Available on Github

Uses

Model can be used to predict whether an item of speech from the UK Parliament was said by a member of the Labour or Conservative Party.

Out-of-Scope Use

Model has only been exposed to UK data and speeches from Labour or Conservative. May not work as intended for other parties or geographies.

Training Data

biglam/hansard_speech

Preprocessing

[bert-cased]

Evaluation

Evaluated on held-out test data. Achieved test accuracy >80% and test loss <0.4 (binary cross-entropy).

Citation

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BibTeX:

@misc{baly2020detect, title={We Can Detect Your Bias: Predicting the Political Ideology of News Articles}, author={Ramy Baly and Giovanni Da San Martino and James Glass and Preslav Nakov}, year={2020}, eprint={2010.05338}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }