2 papers
cs.SI2019
Predicting the Topical Stance of Media and Popular Twitter Users
Peter Stefanov, Kareem Darwish, Atanas Atanasov +1
Discovering the stances of media outlets and influential people on current, debatable topics is important for social statisticians and policy makers. Many supervised solutions exis…
cs.SI2019
Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter
Kareem Darwish, Peter Stefanov, Michaël Aupetit +1
We present a highly effective unsupervised framework for detecting the stance of prolific Twitter users with respect to controversial topics. In particular, we use dimensionality r…