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Recognizing stances in online debates
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This paper presents an unsupervised opinion analysis method for debate-side classification, i.e., recognizing which stance a person is taking in an online debate. In order to handle the complexities of this genre, we mine the web to learn associations that are indicative of opinion stances in debates. We combine this knowledge with discourse information, and formulate the debate side classification task as an Integer Linear Programming problem. Our results show that our method is substantially better than challenging baseline methods.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Somasundaran, S., & Wiebe, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 1 - ACL-IJCNLP '09
- Published
- 2009
- Volume
- 1
- Pages
- 226
- OpenAlex
- W2150850338
- Cited by
- 303
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.97
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Keywords
- stance detection, online debate, web mining, association rule mining, discourse information, integer linear programming, sentiment analysis
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