Maite Taboada
Also published as: M. Taboada
2023
Dimensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism
Matt Canute | Mali Jin | Hannah Holtzclaw | Alberto Lusoli | Philippa Adams | Mugdha Pandya | Maite Taboada | Diana Maynard | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Matt Canute | Mali Jin | Hannah Holtzclaw | Alberto Lusoli | Philippa Adams | Mugdha Pandya | Maite Taboada | Diana Maynard | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Agonism plays a vital role in democratic dialogue by fostering diverse perspectives and robust discussions. Within the realm of online conflict there is another type: hateful antagonism, which undermines constructive dialogue. Detecting conflict online is central to platform moderation and monetization. It is also vital for democratic dialogue, but only when it takes the form of agonism. To model these two types of conflict, we collected Twitter conversations related to trending controversial topics. We introduce a comprehensive annotation schema for labelling different dimensions of conflict in the conversations, such as the source of conflict, the target, and the rhetorical strategies deployed. Using this schema, we annotated approximately 4,000 conversations with multiple labels. We then train both logistic regression and transformer-based models on the dataset, incorporating context from the conversation, including the number of participants and the structure of the interactions. Results show that contextual labels are helpful in identifying conflict and make the models robust to variations in topic. Our research contributes a conceptualization of different dimensions of conflict, a richly annotated dataset, and promising results that can contribute to content moderation.
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- Julian Brooke 4
- Farah Benamara 3
- Paula Cardoso 3
- Manfred Stede 3
- Milan Tofiloski 3
- Mikel Iruskieta 2
- Varada Kolhatkar 2
- Kimberly Voll 2
- Philippa Adams 1
- Jon Alkorta 1
- Caroline Anthony 1
- Juliano D. Antonio 1
- Matthew Broadhead 1
- Sheila C. M. de Sousa 1
- Matt Canute 1
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 1
- Cortis Clark 1
- Noa P. Cruz Diaz 1
- Debopam Das 1
- Donna Gates 1
- Koldo Gojenola 1
- Hannah Holtzclaw 1
- Diana Inkpen 1
- Mali Jin 1
- Natalia Konstantinova 1
- Mirella Lapata 1
- Alon Lavie 1
- Lori Levin 1
- Alberto Lusoli 1
- Yannick Mathieu 1
- Diana Maynard 1
- E.G. Maziero 1
- Manuel J. Maña López 1
- Ruslan Mitkov 1
- Gabriel Murray 1
- Mugdha Pandya 1
- Thiago Pardo 1
- Thiago A. S. Pardo 1
- Steve Renals 1
- Fatemeh Torabi Asr 1
- Alex Waibel 1
- Puming Zhan 1
- Iria da Cunha 1