Dimensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism

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العنوان: Dimensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism
المؤلفون: Canute, Matt, Jin, Mali, holtzclaw, hannah, Lusoli, Alberto, Adams, Philippa R, Pandya, Mugdha, Taboada, Maite, Maynard, Diana, Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong
المصدر: "Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)". Singapore. December 6-10, 2023
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language
الوصف: 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 trained 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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نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03584
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2311.03584
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv