Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia

• Main Authors: GOTTOPATI, Swapna, QIU, Minghui, SIM, Yanchuan, JIANG, Jing, SMITH, Noah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2059; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3058&context=sis_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...