Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia

We explore Debatepedia, a communityauthored encyclopedia of sociopolitical debates, as evidence for inferring a lowdimensional, human-interpretable representation in the domain of issues and positions. We introduce a generative model positing latent topics and cross-cutting positions that gives spec...

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Main Authors:	GOTTOPATI, Swapna, QIU, Minghui, SIM, Yanchuan, JIANG, Jing, SMITH, Noah
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Published:	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
Subjects:	Databases and Information Systems Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
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spelling	sg-smu-ink.sis_research-30582016-04-17T00:42:51Z Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia GOTTOPATI, Swapna QIU, Minghui SIM, Yanchuan JIANG, Jing SMITH, Noah We explore Debatepedia, a communityauthored encyclopedia of sociopolitical debates, as evidence for inferring a lowdimensional, human-interpretable representation in the domain of issues and positions. We introduce a generative model positing latent topics and cross-cutting positions that gives special treatment to person mentions and opinion words. We evaluate the resulting representation’s usefulness in attaching opinionated documents to arguments and its consistency with human judgments about positions. 2013-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2059 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3058&context=sis_research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Databases and Information Systems Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
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description	We explore Debatepedia, a communityauthored encyclopedia of sociopolitical debates, as evidence for inferring a lowdimensional, human-interpretable representation in the domain of issues and positions. We introduce a generative model positing latent topics and cross-cutting positions that gives special treatment to person mentions and opinion words. We evaluate the resulting representation’s usefulness in attaching opinionated documents to arguments and its consistency with human judgments about positions.
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author	GOTTOPATI, Swapna QIU, Minghui SIM, Yanchuan JIANG, Jing SMITH, Noah
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title	Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
title_short	Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
title_full	Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
title_fullStr	Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
title_full_unstemmed	Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia
title_sort	learning topics and positions from debatepedia
publisher	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate	2013
url	https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2059 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3058&context=sis_research
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