Project

PLATOS: Detection of topics, stance and argumentation in a social media corpus

Acronym

PLATOS

Code

01N00718

Duration

01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Els Lefever

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Computational linguistics

Keywords

topic detection stance detection argumentation mining machine learning social media corpus natural language processing distributional techniques normalisation term extraction Language technology

Project description

This proposal aims at investigating stance and argument detection on automatically extracted topics in social media text by combining linguistic knowledge and machine learning. The proposed research is innovative in
two respects: (1) term extraction and hypernym detection techniques will be combined with distributional information to detect topics and (2) a model for argumentation mining in social media text will be researched.