The Sally Smedley Hyperpartisan News Detector at SemEval-2019 Task 4

This paper describes our system submitted to the formal run of SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan news detection. Our system is based on a linear classifier using several features, i.e., 1) embedding features based on the pre-trained BERT embeddings, 2) article length features, and 3) embedding features of informative phrases extracted from by-publisher dataset. Our system achieved 80.9{\%} accuracy on the test set for the formal run and got the 3rd place out of 42 teams.

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