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 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.

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

[bert-cased]

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

@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} }