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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter

February 1, 2023

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Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov

Hamad bin Khalifa University,Sofia University,Hamad bin Khalifa University,Hamad bin Khalifa University


DOI:

10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7286


Abstract:

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 reduction to project users onto a low-dimensional space, followed by clustering, which allows us to find core users that are representative of the different stances. Our framework has three major advantages over pre-existing methods, which are based on supervised or semi-supervised classification. First, we do not require any prior labeling of users: instead, we create clusters, which are much easier to label manually afterwards, e.g., in a matter of seconds or minutes instead of hours. Second, there is no need for domain- or topic-level knowledge either to specify the relevant stances (labels) or to conduct the actual labeling. Third, our framework is robust in the face of data skewness, e.g., when some users or some stances have greater representation in the data. We experiment with different combinations of user similarity features, dataset sizes, dimensionality reduction methods, and clustering algorithms to ascertain the most effective and most computationally efficient combinations across three different datasets (in English and Turkish). We further verified our results on additional tweet sets covering six different controversial topics. Our best combination in terms of effectiveness and efficiency uses retweeted accounts as features, UMAP for dimensionality reduction, and Mean Shift for clustering, and yields a small number of high-quality user clusters, typically just 2–3, with more than 98% purity. The resulting user clusters can be used to train downstream classifiers. Moreover, our framework is robust to variations in the hyper-parameter values and also with respect to random initialization.

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Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2020) 141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter ICWSM 2020, 141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov (2020). Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2020 p.141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. 2020. Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter. "Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media". 141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. (2020) "Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter", Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, p.141-152

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov, "Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter", ICWSM, p.141-152, 2020.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. "Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2020, p.141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. "Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, (2020): 141-152.

Kareem Darwish,Peter Stefanov,Michaël Aupetit,Preslav Nakov. Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter. ICWSM[Internet]. 2020[cited 2023]; 141-152.


ISSN: 2334-0770


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