Stance Inference in Twitter through Graph Convolutional Collaborative Filtering Networks with Minimal Supervision

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  • Zhiwei Zhou
  • Erick Elejalde

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksWWW '23 Companion
UntertitelCompanion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023
Seiten1030-1038
Seitenumfang9
ISBN (elektronisch)9781450394161
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 30 Apr. 2023
Veranstaltung2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 - Austin, USA / Vereinigte Staaten
Dauer: 30 Apr. 20234 Mai 2023

Abstract

Social Media (SM) has become a stage for people to share thoughts, emotions, opinions, and almost every other aspect of their daily lives. This abundance of human interaction makes SM particularly attractive for social sensing. Especially during polarizing events such as political elections or referendums, users post information and encourage others to support their side, using symbols such as hashtags to represent their attitudes. However, many users choose not to attach hashtags to their messages, use a different language, or show their position only indirectly. Thus, automatically identifying their opinions becomes a more challenging task. To uncover these implicit perspectives, we propose a collaborative filtering model based on Graph Convolutional Networks that exploits the textual content in messages and the rich connections between users and topics. Moreover, our approach only requires a small annotation effort compared to state-of-the-art solutions. Nevertheless, the proposed model achieves competitive performance in predicting individuals' stances. We analyze users' attitudes ahead of two constitutional referendums in Chile in 2020 and 2022. Using two large Twitter datasets, our model achieves improvements of 3.4% in recall and 3.6% in accuracy over the baselines.

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Stance Inference in Twitter through Graph Convolutional Collaborative Filtering Networks with Minimal Supervision. / Zhou, Zhiwei; Elejalde, Erick.
WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. 2023. S. 1030-1038.

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Zhou, Z & Elejalde, E 2023, Stance Inference in Twitter through Graph Convolutional Collaborative Filtering Networks with Minimal Supervision. in WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. S. 1030-1038, 2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023, Austin, Texas, USA / Vereinigte Staaten, 30 Apr. 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.15532, https://doi.org/10.1145/3543873.3587640
Zhou Z, Elejalde E. Stance Inference in Twitter through Graph Convolutional Collaborative Filtering Networks with Minimal Supervision. in WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. 2023. S. 1030-1038 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.15532, 10.1145/3543873.3587640
Zhou, Zhiwei ; Elejalde, Erick. / Stance Inference in Twitter through Graph Convolutional Collaborative Filtering Networks with Minimal Supervision. WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. 2023. S. 1030-1038
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