Masking Explicit Pro-Con Expressions for Development of a Stance Classification Dataset on Assembly Minutes

Tomoyosi Akiba, Yuki Gato, Yasutomo Kimura, Yuzu Uchida, Keiichi Takamaru


Abstract
In this paper, a new dataset for Stance Classification based on assembly minutes is introduced. We develop it by using publicity available minutes taken from diverse Japanese local governments including prefectural, city, and town assemblies. In order to make the task to predict a stance from content of a politician’s utterance without explicit stance expressions, predefined words that directly convey the speaker’s stance in the utterance are replaced by a special token. Those masked words are also used to assign a golden label, either agreement or disagreement, to the utterance. Finally, we constructed total 15,018 instances automatically from 47 Japanese local governments. The dataset is used in the shared Stance Classification task evaluated in the NTCIR-17 QA-Lab-PoliInfo-4, and is now publicity available. Since the construction method of the dataset is automatic, we can still apply it to obtain more instances from the other Japanese local governments.
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2024.politicalnlp-1.4
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Haithem Afli, Houda Bouamor, Cristina Blasi Casagran, Sahar Ghannay
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PoliticalNLP | WS
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33–38
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Tomoyosi Akiba, Yuki Gato, Yasutomo Kimura, Yuzu Uchida, and Keiichi Takamaru. 2024. Masking Explicit Pro-Con Expressions for Development of a Stance Classification Dataset on Assembly Minutes. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 33–38, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Masking Explicit Pro-Con Expressions for Development of a Stance Classification Dataset on Assembly Minutes (Akiba et al., PoliticalNLP-WS 2024)
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