FIRE-WN 2018
FIRE 2018 Working Notes

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Parth Mehta, Paolo Rosso, Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra

Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)

• Overview of the FIRE 2018 Track: Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis) 1-10
  Moumita Basu, Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh
• Measuring Fact Check-ability in Microblogs 11-14
  Anurag Banerjee
• DAIICT-Hildesheim @ Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis 2018) 15-17
  Noushin Fadaei, Chanjong Im, Sandip Modha, Thomas Mandl
• Fully Automatic Approach to Identify Factual or Fact-checkable Tweets 18-23
  Sarthak Anand, Rajat Gupta, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
• IIT BHU at FIRE 2018 IRMiDis Track - Obtaining Factual Tweets during Natural Disasters 24-27
  Harshit Mehrotra, Sukomal Pal
• A String Kernel based Information Retrieval Approach for Tweet-validation through News 28-33
  Muhammad Rafi, Fizza Abid, Anum Mirza, Hamza Mustafa Khan
• Identify Fact-checkable Tweets 34-38
  Siddharth Ghelani, Divyank Barnwal, Rohit Krishna

Indian Native Language Identification (INLI)

• Overview of the second shared task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) 39-50
  Anand Kumar M, Barathi Ganesh H, Ajay S G, Soman K P
• INLI@FIRE-2018: A Native Language Identification System using Convolutional Neural Networks 51-58
  Ajees A P, Sumam Mary Idicula
• Statistical testing based feature selection for Native Language Identification INLI@FIRE2018 59-67
  B Bharathi, Bhuvana J
• A Machine Learning Approach to Indian Native Language Identification 68-76
  D Thenmozhi, S Kayalvizhi, Chandrabose Aravindan
• Corplab INLI@FIRE-2018: Identification of Indian Native Language using Pairwise Coupling 77-81
  Soumik Mondal, Athul Harilal, Alexander Binder
• CIC-IPN@INLI2018: Indian Native Language Identification 82-88
  Ilia Markov, Grigori Sidorov
• Team WebArch at FIRE-2018 Track on Indian Native Language Identification 89-94
  Aman Gupta
• NLPRL@INLI-2018: Hybrid gated LSTM-CNN model for Indian Native Language Identification 95-101
  Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya, Manish Singh, Anil Kumar Singh
• IIITV@INLI-2018 : Hyperdimensional Computing for Indian Native Language Identification 102-109
  Ashish Patel, Pratik Shah
• Mangalore University INLI@FIRE2018: Artificial Neural Network and Ensemble based Models for INLI 110-118
  Hamada A. Nayel, H. L. Shashirekha

Information Extractor for Conversational Systems in Indian Languages (IECSIL)

• Overview of Arnekt IECSIL at FIRE-2018 Track on Information Extraction for Conversational Systems in Indian Languages 119-128
  Barathi Ganesh H B, Soman K P, Reshma U, Mandar Kale, Prachi Mankame, Gouri Kulkarni, Anitha Kale, Anand Kumar M
• CUSAT_TEAM@IECSIL-FIRE-2018:A Named Entity Recognition System for Indian Languages 129-136
  Ajees A P , Sumam Mary Idicula
• HiLT@IECSIL-FIRE-2018: A Named Entity Recognition System for Indian Languages 137-144
  Sagar, Srinivas P Y K L, Rusheel Koushik Gollakota, Amitava Das
• IIT(BHU)@IECSIL-FIRE2018: Language Independent Automatic Framework for Entity Extraction in Indian Languages 145-152
  Akanksha Mishra, Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya, Sukomal Pal
• Khushleen@IECSIL-FIRE-2018:Indic Language Named Entity Recognition using Bidirectional LSTMs with Subword Information 153-157
  Khushleen Kaur
• idrbt-team-a@IECSIL-FIRE-2018 Named Entity Recognition of Indian Languages using bi-LSTM 158-165
  S. Nagesh Bhattu, N. Satya Krishna , D. V. L. N. Somayajulu
• idrbt-team-a@IECSIL-FIRE-2018 : Relation Categorization for Social Media News Text 166-173
  N. Satya Krishna, S. Nagesh Bhattu, D. V. L. N. Somayajulu
• raiden11@IECSIL-FIRE-2018 : Named Entity Recognition for Indian Languages 174-186
  Ayush Gupta, Meghna Ayyar, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Rajiv Ratn Shah
• SSN_NLP@IECSIL-FIRE-2018: Deep Learning Approach to Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction for Conversational Systems in Indian Languages 187-201
  D. Thenmozhi, B. Senthil Kumar, Chandrabose Aravindan

Multilingual Author Profiling on SMS Messages (MAPonSMS)

• MAPonSMS - Overview of the Multilingual SMS-based Author Profiling task at FIRE’18 202-212
  Muhammad Sharjeel, Mehwish Fatima, Saba Anwar, Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab
• KCE_DAlab@MAPonSMS-FIRE2018: Effective word and character-based features for Multilingual Author Profiling 213-222
  Sharmila Devi V, Kannimuthu S, Ravikumar G, Anand Kumar M
• Multi-lingual Author Profiling on SMS Messages using Machine Learning Approach with Statistical Feature Selection 223-231
  D. Thenmozhi , A Kalaivani, Chandrabose Aravindan
• Gender and Age Prediction Multilingual Author Profiles Based on Comments 232-239
  Ali Nemati
• Multi-lingual Author Profiling using Stylistic Features 240-246
  Abdul Sittar, Iqra Ameer
• Using Bag-of-Words and Psycho-Linguistic features for MAPonSMS 247-256
  Asmara Safdar, Osama Akhter, Osama Inayat, Abdullah Khalid
• MAPonSMS18: Multilingual Author Profiling using Combination of Features 257-264
  Ramsha Imran, Muntaha Iqbal
• Multilingual Author Profiling from SMS 265-276
  Deepanshu Gaur, Meghna Ayyar, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Rajiv Ratn Shah
• A Statistical Approach to Gender and Age Range Classification in Multilingual Corpus 277-281
  Òscar Garibo i Orts, Francisco Rangel

Event Extraction from Newswires and Social Media Text in Indian Languages (EventXtract-IL)

• EventXtract-IL: Event Extraction from Newswires and Social Media Text in Indian Languages @ FIRE 2018 – An Overview 282-290
  Pattabhi RK Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi
• A Neural Network based Event Extraction System for Indian Languages 291-301
  Alapan Kuila, Sarath chandra Bussa, Sudeshna Sarkar
• Rule based Event Extraction System from Newswires and Social Media Text in Indian Languages (EventXtract-IL) for English and Hindi Data 302-307
  Anita Saroj, Rajesh kumar Munodtiya, Sukomal Pal

Verb Phrase Translation in English and Indian Languages (VPT-IL)

• Overview of Verb Phrase Translation in Machine Translation: English to Tamil and Hindi to Tamil 308-315
  Vijay Sundar Ram R, Sobha Lalitha Devi
• NMT based Tamil Translation 316-322
  Aditya Kumar Pathak, Himanshu Choudhary, Rajiv Ratn Shah
• Deep Learning Approach to English-Tamil and Hindi-Tamil Verb Phrase Translations 323-331
  D. Thenmozhi, B. Senthil Kumar, Chandrabose Aravindan
• A Transfer-rule based Verb Phrase Translation from English to Tamil 332-336
  Parameswari K, Nagaraju V, Angeline Linda K