Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams

Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner; Ziv Ido; Ronen Ya’akobov

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71273-4_22

Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams

Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
, Ziv Ido
, Ronen Ya’akobov

Jerusalem College of Technology

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Abstract

In this research, we focus on automatic supervised stance classification of tweets. Given test datasets of tweets from five various topics, we try to classify the stance of the tweet authors as either in FAVOR of the target, AGAINST it, or NONE. We apply eight variants of seven supervised machine learning methods and three filtering methods using the WEKA platform. The macro-average results obtained by our algorithm are significantly better than the state-of-art results reported by the best macro-average results achieved in the SemEval 2016 Task 6-A for all the five released datasets. In contrast to the competitors of the SemEval 2016 Task 6-A, who did not use any char skip ngrams but rather used thousands of ngrams and hundreds of word embedding features, our algorithm uses a few tens of features mainly character-based features where most of them are skip char ngram features.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Yasemin Altun, Kamalika Das, Taneli Mielikäinen, Donato Malerba, Jerzy Stefanowski, Jesse Read, Marinka Zitnik, Michelangelo Ceci, Saso Dzeroski
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	266-278
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783319712727
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71273-4_22
State	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2017 - Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Duration: 18 Sep 2017 → 22 Sep 2017

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	10536 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2017
Country/Territory	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
City	Skopje
Period	18/09/17 → 22/09/17

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© 2017, Springer International Publishing AG.

Keywords

Short texts
Skip character ngrams
Skip word ngrams
Social data
Stance classification
Supervised machine learning
Tweets

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HaCohen-Kerner, Y., Ido, Z., & Ya’akobov, R. (2017). Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams. In Y. Altun, K. Das, T. Mielikäinen, D. Malerba, J. Stefanowski, J. Read, M. Zitnik, M. Ceci, & S. Dzeroski (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017, Proceedings (pp. 266-278). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10536 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71273-4_22

HaCohen-Kerner, Yaakov ; Ido, Ziv ; Ya’akobov, Ronen. / Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017, Proceedings. editor / Yasemin Altun ; Kamalika Das ; Taneli Mielikäinen ; Donato Malerba ; Jerzy Stefanowski ; Jesse Read ; Marinka Zitnik ; Michelangelo Ceci ; Saso Dzeroski. Springer Verlag, 2017. pp. 266-278 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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HaCohen-Kerner, Y, Ido, Z & Ya’akobov, R 2017, Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams. in Y Altun, K Das, T Mielikäinen, D Malerba, J Stefanowski, J Read, M Zitnik, M Ceci & S Dzeroski (eds), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10536 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 266-278, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of, 18/09/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71273-4_22

Stance Classification of Tweets Using Skip Char Ngrams. / HaCohen-Kerner, Yaakov; Ido, Ziv; Ya’akobov, Ronen.
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Yasemin Altun; Kamalika Das; Taneli Mielikäinen; Donato Malerba; Jerzy Stefanowski; Jesse Read; Marinka Zitnik; Michelangelo Ceci; Saso Dzeroski. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 266-278 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10536 LNAI).

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