Understanding Politics via Contextualized Discourse Processing

Rajkumar Pujari, Dan Goldwasser


Abstract
Politicians often have underlying agendas when reacting to events. Arguments in contexts of various events reflect a fairly consistent set of agendas for a given entity. In spite of recent advances in Pretrained Language Models, those text representations are not designed to capture such nuanced patterns. In this paper, we propose a Compositional Reader model consisting of encoder and composer modules, that captures and leverages such information to generate more effective representations for entities, issues, and events. These representations are contextualized by tweets, press releases, issues, news articles, and participating entities. Our model processes several documents at once and generates composed representations for multiple entities over several issues or events. Via qualitative and quantitative empirical analysis, we show that these representations are meaningful and effective.
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2021.emnlp-main.102
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1353–1367
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.102
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.102
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Rajkumar Pujari and Dan Goldwasser. 2021. Understanding Politics via Contextualized Discourse Processing. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1353–1367, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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