Who Sides with Whom? Towards Computational Construction of Discourse Networks for Political Debates
Sebastian Padó, André Blessing, Nico Blokker, Erenay Dayanık, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn · 2019
Understanding the structures of political debates (which actors make what claims) is essential for understanding democratic political decision-making.The vision of computational construction of such discourse networks from newspaper reports brings together political science and natural language processing.This paper presents three contributions towards this goal: (a) a requirements analysis, linking the task to knowledge base population; (b) a first release of an annotated corpus of claims on the topic of migration, based on German newspaper reports; (c) initial modeling results.