@InProceedings{johnson-goldwasser:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Johnson, Kristen  and  Goldwasser, Dan},
  title     = {“All I know about politics is what I read in Twitter”: Weakly Supervised Models for Extracting Politicians’ Stances From Twitter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {2966--2977},
  abstract  = {During the 2016 United States presidential election, politicians have
	increasingly used Twitter to express their beliefs, stances on current
	political issues, and reactions concerning national and international events.
	Given the limited length of tweets and the scrutiny politicians face for what
	they choose or neglect to say, they must craft and time their tweets carefully.
	The content and delivery of these tweets is therefore highly indicative of a
	politician's stances. We present a weakly supervised method for extracting how
	issues are framed and temporal activity patterns on Twitter for popular
	politicians and issues of the 2016 election. These behavioral components are
	combined into a global model which collectively infers the most likely stance
	and agreement patterns among politicians, with respective accuracies of 86.44\%
	and 84.6\% on average.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1279}
}