XiaojingEllen/bert-finetuned-claim-detection
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bert-finetuned-claim-detection
This model is a fine-tuned version of `bert-base-uncased` on the Claim Detection dataset (Nithiwat/claim-detection).
The goal of this model is to classify whether a given sentence is a check-worthy claim or not. It is trained as a binary text classification task using the Hugging Face Trainer API.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 0.2241
- Accuracy: 0.9135
- F1: 0.9138
Intended uses & limitations
This model is designed for text-level claim detection, with potential applications in:
- ✅ Insurance claim screening
- ✅ Fraud detection and compliance document filtering
- ✅ Fact-checking or misinformation detection
- ✅ News or policy statement classification
Limitations
- Trained only on English-language data
- Detects checkworthiness, not truthfulness — the model identifies statements that can be fact-checked, not whether they are true
- May require fine-tuning for domain-specific text (e.g., legal, financial)
Training and evaluation data
Training and evaluation were conducted using the Hugging Face Trainer class with custom metric computation (Accuracy and F1-score). The model was fine-tuned on 11,000 training samples and evaluated on the full test split.
Example Usage
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model="EllenLiu/bert-finetuned-claim-detection")
text = "The new policy will save the government $20 billion annually."
print(pipe(text))
# Output: [{'label': 'LABEL_1', 'score': 0.987}]Interpretation:
- LABEL_1: Claim (check-worthy statement)
- LABEL_0: Non-claim (non-factual or subjective statement)
Training procedure
Training hyperparameters
The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 2e-05
- trainbatchsize: 16
- evalbatchsize: 16
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMWTORCHFUSED with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
- lrschedulertype: cosine
- lrschedulerwarmup_steps: 400
- num_epochs: 2
Training results
Framework versions
- Transformers 4.57.1
- Pytorch 2.8.0+cu126
- Datasets 4.0.0
- Tokenizers 0.22.1
Author
Citation
@misc{liu2025_claim_detection,
title={BERT-base Uncased Fine-tuned for Claim Detection},
author={Xiaojing Liu},
year={2025},
howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/XiaojingEllen/bert-finetuned-claim-detection}},
note={Version 1.0}
}