@InProceedings{pavalanathan-EtAl:2017:Long,
  author    = {Pavalanathan, Umashanthi  and  Fitzpatrick, Jim  and  Kiesling, Scott  and  Eisenstein, Jacob},
  title     = {A Multidimensional Lexicon for Interpersonal Stancetaking},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {884--895},
  abstract  = {The sociolinguistic construct of stancetaking describes the activities through
	which discourse participants create and signal relationships to their
	interlocutors, to the topic of discussion, and to the talk itself. Stancetaking
	underlies a wide range of interactional phenomena, relating to formality,
	politeness, affect, and subjectivity. We present a computational approach to
	stancetaking, in which we build a theoretically-motivated lexicon of stance
	markers, and then use multidimensional analysis to identify a set of underlying
	stance dimensions. We validate these dimensions intrinscially and
	extrinsically, showing that they are internally coherent, match pre-registered
	hypotheses, and correlate with social phenomena.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1082}
}