用大模型立场分数构建连续符号网络,动态追踪社交媒体极化变化。
Linking Extreme Discourse to Structural Polarization in Signed Interaction Networks

- 基于大模型立场得分生成带权重的符号边,连接语言与网络结构。
- 两种极化度量在时间上高度一致,但对边强度敏感性不同。
- 发现语言信号可提前预测未来极化,适合研究社会舆论演化。
在线社区中的极化现象通常通过语言或交互结构分别研究,但两者缺乏统一的度量框架。以往工作通过人工标注的同意/不同意构建交互图,导致语言与结构之间存在断层。本文提出一种以语言为基础的符号网络分析流程:从大模型立场评分中推导出连续的符号边权重,并采用谱方法(Eigen-Sign)和分区-挫败度(frustration)两种互补指标量化结构性极化。经归一化后,两指标表现出显著一致性,同时在边权重敏感性上保留差异。应用于Reddit关于英国脱欧的讨论,分析了毒性、极端陈述和困惑度等窗口级话语信号与极化随时间演变的关系。边级与消融分析显示,带有置信度加权的连续符号边能揭示符号仅表示所掩盖的强度模式。进一步探索性的一步前向预测分析表明,滞后语言信号可能包含超越结构惯性的未来极化信息。结果表明,该框架能统一刻画话语与网络结构间的动态极化关系。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Polarization in online communities is often studied through either language or interaction structure, but the two views are rarely connected in a unified measurement pipeline. Prior work links them by building interaction graphs from human judgments of agreement and disagreement, leaving a gap between language as observed text and structure as an engineered representation of that text. We address this gap with a language-grounded signed-network pipeline that derives continuous signed edge weights from LLM stance scores and quantifies structural polarization using two complementary measures: a spectral Eigen-Sign score and a partition-based frustration score. After normalization, the two measures show substantial agreement while retaining important differences in their sensitivity to edge magnitude. Applying the framework to Reddit Brexit discussions, we analyze how window-level discourse signals, including toxicity, extreme scalar claims, and perplexity, relate to temporal variation in structural polarization. Edge-level and ablation analyses show that continuous, confidence-weighted signed edges reveal intensity-sensitive patterns that are muted under sign-only representations. We further report an exploratory one-step-ahead forecasting analysis suggesting that lagged language signals may contain information about future polarization beyond structural persistence. Together, the results demonstrate how discourse and signed-network structure can be connected in a single framework for measuring and interpreting polarization dynamics over time.
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