@inproceedings{boltuzic-snajder-2017-toward,
    title = "Toward Stance Classification Based on Claim Microstructures",
    author = "Boltu{\v{z}}i{\'c}, Filip  and
      {\v{S}}najder, Jan",
    editor = "Balahur, Alexandra  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.  and
      van der Goot, Erik",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-5210/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5210",
    pages = "74--80",
    abstract = "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 domain-specific 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."
}