Automatic Classification of Neutralization Techniques in the Narrative of Climate Change Scepticism
Shraey Bhatia, Jey Han Lau, Timothy J. Baldwin · 2021
Neutralisation techniques, e.g.denial of responsibility and denial of victim, are used in the narrative of climate change scepticism to justify lack of action or to promote an alternative view.We collect manual annotations of neutralised techniques used in these texts, and explore semi-supervised models to automatically classify them.