arXiv:2410.15743cs.CL2024-10EMNLP被引 1

用推特哈希标签自动分析政党立场,无需人工标注。

Toeing the Party Line: Election Manifestos as a Key to Understand Political Discourse on Twitter

  • 以哈希标签为信号,微调文本表示来捕捉政党立场。
  • 在多时间跨度和小数据场景下,结果与竞选纲领一致。
  • 适合研究社交媒体中政治话语的自动化分析。

Twitter上的政治话语动态变化,持续发布立场声明。传统方法因数据模糊且依赖语境,多聚焦于政党竞选纲领而非社交媒体。本文将先前基于纲领预测政党间位置相似性的方法扩展至推特场景,利用哈希标签作为信号微调文本表征,无需人工标注。通过一系列实验验证微调有效性,并评估方法在低资源场景下的鲁棒性。结果表明,无论使用多年完整推文或短期小样本,该方法均能稳定反映与纲领一致的政治定位。这说明在噪声更大的社交媒体环境中,亦可无需人工标注可靠分析政治主体的相对立场。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Political discourse on Twitter is a moving target: politicians continuously make statements about their positions. It is therefore crucial to track their discourse on social media to understand their ideological positions and goals. However, Twitter data is also challenging to work with since it is ambiguous and often dependent on social context, and consequently, recent work on political positioning has tended to focus strongly on manifestos (parties' electoral programs) rather than social media. In this paper, we extend recently proposed methods to predict pairwise positional similarities between parties from the manifesto case to the Twitter case, using hashtags as a signal to fine-tune text representations, without the need for manual annotation. We verify the efficacy of fine-tuning and conduct a series of experiments that assess the robustness of our method for low-resource scenarios. We find that our method yields stable positioning reflective of manifesto positioning, both in scenarios with all tweets of candidates across years available and when only smaller subsets from shorter time periods are available. This indicates that it is possible to reliably analyze the relative positioning of actors forgoing manual annotation, even in the noisier context of social media.

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