Content-based Stance Classification of Tweets about the 2020 Italian Constitutional Referendum
Published: Jan 1, 2021
Abstract
On September 2020 a constitutional referendum was held in Italy. In this work we collect a dataset of 1.2M tweets related to this event, with particular interest to the textual content shared, and we design a hashtag-based semi-automatic approach to label them as Supporters or Against the referendum. We use the labelled dataset to train a classifier based on transformers, unsupervisedly pre-trained on Italian corpora. Our model generalizes well...
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Content-based Stance Classification of Tweets about the 2020 Italian Constitutional Referendum
Published Date
Jan 1, 2021
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