Multi-Target User Stance Discovery on Reddit

Benjamin Steel, Derek Ruths


Abstract
We consider how to credibly and reliably assess the opinions of individuals using their social media posts. To this end, this paper makes three contributions. First, we assemble a workflow and approach to applying modern natural language processing (NLP) methods to multi-target user stance detection in the wild. Second, we establish why the multi-target modeling of user stance is qualitatively more complicated than uni-target user-stance detection. Finally, we validate our method by showing how multi-dimensional measurement of user opinions not only reproduces known opinion polling results, but also enables the study of opinion dynamics at high levels of temporal and semantic resolution.
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2024.wassa-1.16
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Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Orphée De Clercq, Valentin Barriere, Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, João Sedoc, Shabnam Tafreshi
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WASSA | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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200–214
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.16
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Benjamin Steel and Derek Ruths. 2024. Multi-Target User Stance Discovery on Reddit. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 200–214, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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