Encoding Social Information with Graph Convolutional Networks forPolitical Perspective Detection in News Media

Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser


Abstract
Identifying the political perspective shaping the way news events are discussed in the media is an important and challenging task. In this paper, we highlight the importance of contextualizing social information, capturing how this information is disseminated in social networks. We use Graph Convolutional Networks, a recently proposed neural architecture for representing relational information, to capture the documents’ social context. We show that social information can be used effectively as a source of distant supervision, and when direct supervision is available, even little social information can significantly improve performance.
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P19-1247
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2594–2604
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1247
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1247
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Chang Li and Dan Goldwasser. 2019. Encoding Social Information with Graph Convolutional Networks forPolitical Perspective Detection in News Media. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2594–2604, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Encoding Social Information with Graph Convolutional Networks forPolitical Perspective Detection in News Media (Li & Goldwasser, ACL 2019)
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