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Stance Classification in Texts from Blogs on the 2016 British Referendum

Simaki, Vasiliki LU ; Paradis, Carita LU orcid and Kerren, Andreas (2017) In Lectures in Artificial Intelligence 10458. p.700-709
Abstract
The problem of identifying and correctly attributing speaker stance in human communication is addressed in this paper. The data set consists of political blogs dealing with the 2016 British referendum. A cognitive-functional framework is adopted with data annotated for six notional stance categories: concession/contrariness, hypotheticality, need/ requirement, prediction, source of knowledge, and uncertainty. We show that these categories can be implemented in a text classification task and automatically detected. To this end, we propose a large set of lexical and syntactic linguistic features. These features were tested and classification experiments were implemented using different algorithms. We achieved accuracy of up to 30% for the... (More)
The problem of identifying and correctly attributing speaker stance in human communication is addressed in this paper. The data set consists of political blogs dealing with the 2016 British referendum. A cognitive-functional framework is adopted with data annotated for six notional stance categories: concession/contrariness, hypotheticality, need/ requirement, prediction, source of knowledge, and uncertainty. We show that these categories can be implemented in a text classification task and automatically detected. To this end, we propose a large set of lexical and syntactic linguistic features. These features were tested and classification experiments were implemented using different algorithms. We achieved accuracy of up to 30% for the six-class experiments, which is not fully satisfactory. As a second step, we calculated the pair-wise combinations of the stance categories. The concession/contrariness and need/requirement binary classification achieved the best results with up to 71% accuracy. (Less)
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Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings - 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings
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Lectures in Artificial Intelligence
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10458
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700 - 709
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978-3-319-66428-6
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10.1007/978-3-319-66429-3_70
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StaViCTA - Advances in the description and explanation of stance in discourse using visual and computational text analytics
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  abstract     = {{The problem of identifying and correctly attributing speaker stance in human communication is addressed in this paper. The data set consists of political blogs dealing with the 2016 British referendum. A cognitive-functional framework is adopted with data annotated for six notional stance categories: concession/contrariness, hypotheticality, need/ requirement, prediction, source of knowledge, and uncertainty. We show that these categories can be implemented in a text classification task and automatically detected. To this end, we propose a large set of lexical and syntactic linguistic features. These features were tested and classification experiments were implemented using different algorithms. We achieved accuracy of up to 30% for the six-class experiments, which is not fully satisfactory. As a second step, we calculated the pair-wise combinations of the stance categories. The concession/contrariness and need/requirement binary classification achieved the best results with up to 71% accuracy.}},
  author       = {{Simaki, Vasiliki and Paradis, Carita and Kerren, Andreas}},
  booktitle    = {{Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-319-66428-6}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{700--709}},
  series       = {{Lectures in Artificial Intelligence}},
  title        = {{Stance Classification in Texts from Blogs on the 2016 British Referendum}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66429-3_70}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-319-66429-3_70}},
  volume       = {{10458}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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