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- research-articleJune 2022
A Tale of Two Sides: Study of Protesters and Counter-protesters on #CitizenshipAmendmentAct Campaign on Twitter
- Kumari Neha,
- Vibhu Agrawal,
- Vishwesh Kumar,
- Tushar Mohan,
- Abhishek Chopra,
- Arun Balaji Buduru,
- Rajesh Sharma,
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
WebSci '22: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022Pages 279–289https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531584Online social media platforms have evolved into a significant place for debate around socio-political phenomena such as government policies and bills. Studying online debates on such topics can help infer people’s perception and acceptance of the ...
- research-articleJuly 2021
Stance detection on social media: State of the art and trends
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal (IPRM), Volume 58, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102597AbstractStance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been a growing research interest for developing effective ...
Highlights- We map out the current research terrain on stance detection and synthesize its relation to the existing theoretical orientations.
- research-articleNovember 2019
Stance polarity in political debates: A diachronic perspective of network homophily and conversations on Twitter
AbstractIn the last decade, social media gained a very significant role in public debates, and despite the many intrinsic difficulties of analyzing data streaming from on-line platforms that are poisoned by bots, trolls, and low-quality ...
- ArticleJune 2018
Stance Evolution and Twitter Interactions in an Italian Political Debate
Natural Language Processing and Information SystemsPages 15–27https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91947-8_2AbstractThe number of communications and messages generated by users on social media platforms has progressively increased in the last years. Therefore, the issue of developing automated systems for a deep analysis of users’ generated contents and ...
- research-articleJune 2017
Stance and Sentiment in Tweets
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 17, Issue 3Article No.: 26, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3003433We can often detect from a person’s utterances whether he or she is in favor of or against a given target entity—one’s stance toward the target. However, a person may express the same stance toward a target by using negative or positive language. Here ...
- articleNovember 2012
That is your evidence?: Classifying stance in online political debate
Decision Support Systems (DSSY), Volume 53, Issue 4Pages 719–729https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.032A growing body of work has highlighted the challenges of identifying the stance that a speaker holds towards a particular topic, a task that involves identifying a holistic subjective disposition. We examine stance classification on a corpus of 4731 ...
- ArticleSeptember 2012
Pedagogical Stance: The Teacher's Position and Its Social Signals
SOCIALCOM-PASSAT '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and TrustPages 926–931https://doi.org/10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.121The work defines the notion of "pedagogical stance", viewed as the type of position taken, the role assumed, the image projected and the type of social behavior performed by a teacher in his/her teaching interaction with a pupil. At any moment while ...
- articleSeptember 2008
The Method of Levels of Abstraction
The use of "levels of abstraction" in philosophical analysis ( levelism ) has recently come under attack. In this paper, I argue that a refined version of epistemological levelism should be retained as a fundamental method, called the method of ...