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Classifying Stances of Interaction Posts in Social Media Debate Sites

Authors : Xiaosong Rong, Zhuo Wang, Ziqi Wang, Ming Zhang

Published in: Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Social media debate sites provide a rich collection of public opinions on various controversial issues. In an online debate, participants express their stances by replying directly to the main topic or indirectly to other participants. We observe that the majority of the posts in online debates are interaction posts. In this paper, we propose a new method for the task of stance classification of interaction posts in online debates. We mine the historical activities and textual content of posts to learn the relationships between participants in online debates. Then we build the interaction graph and develop a greedy algorithm to classify participants by stance. Empirical evaluation shows that our method performs better than the baseline methods.

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Title: Classifying Stances of Interaction Posts in Social Media Debate Sites
Authors: Xiaosong Rong
Zhuo Wang
Ziqi Wang
Ming Zhang
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-22185-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-22186-1

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22186-1_26

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