Toward Stance Classification Based on Claim Microstructures
Filip Boltužić, Jan Šnajder · 2017
Claims are the building blocks of arguments and the reasons underpinning opinions, thus analyzing claims is important for both argumentation mining and opinion mining.We propose a framework for representing claims as microstructures, which express the beliefs, judgments, and policies about the relations between domainspecific concepts.In a proof-of-concept study, we manually build microstructures for over 800 claims extracted from an online debate.We test the so-obtained microstructures on the task of claim stance classification, achieving considerable improvements over text-based baselines.