Introduction Spans are fragments of a text belonging to a particular class. To evaluate the prediction of spans we chop a text into atomic pieces and determine for each of them if they have been correctly classified. Out-of-the-box spaCy provides token-based metrics…

Introduction An expression is toxic if it uses rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. Toxic language can be short like “idiot” or longer like “your ‘posts’ are as usual ignorant of reality”. We will use the SpanCategorizer from spaCy to detect toxic spans…

Abstract “Disinformation” is a term used by governments to justify regulation of public communication. The present article presents a quantitative exploration of the actual use of the term “disinformation” based on data from the EUvsDisinfo website. Over the past six years this website published over nine hundred news articles and over…

“We tested Bort on 23 NLU tasks, and on 20 of them, it improved on BERT’s performance — by 31% in one case — even though it’s 16% the size and about 20 times as fast.” — Adrian de Wynter The objective of the present article is to show how…