Language Models Learn Metadata: Political Stance Detection Case Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13756v1
• Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:57:41 GMT
• Title: Language Models Learn Metadata: Political Stance Detection Case Study
• Authors: Stanley Cao, Felix Drinkall,
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates the optimal way to incorporate metadata into a political stance detection task. We show that our simple baseline, using only party membership information, surpasses the current state-of-the-art.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Stance detection is a crucial NLP task with numerous applications in social science, from analyzing online discussions to assessing political campaigns. This paper investigates the optimal way to incorporate metadata into a political stance detection task. We demonstrate that previous methods combining metadata with language-based data for political stance detection have not fully utilized the metadata information; our simple baseline, using only party membership information, surpasses the current state-of-the-art. We then show that prepending metadata (e.g., party and policy) to political speeches performs best, outperforming all baselines, indicating that complex metadata inclusion systems may not learn the task optimally.

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