@inproceedings{bhatia-p-2018-topic,
    title = "Topic-Specific Sentiment Analysis Can Help Identify Political Ideology",
    author = "Bhatia, Sumit  and
      P, Deepak",
    editor = "Balahur, Alexandra  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Klinger, Roman",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
    month = oct,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Brussels, Belgium",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W18-6212/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6212",
    pages = "79--84",
    abstract = "Ideological leanings of an individual can often be gauged by the sentiment one expresses about different issues. We propose a simple framework that represents a political ideology as a distribution of sentiment polarities towards a set of topics. This representation can then be used to detect ideological leanings of documents (speeches, news articles, etc.) based on the sentiments expressed towards different topics. Experiments performed using a widely used dataset show the promise of our proposed approach that achieves comparable performance to other methods despite being much simpler and more interpretable."
}