Come hither or go away? Recognising pre-electoral coalition signals in the news (2021.emnlp-main)
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Ines Rehbein, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Anna Adendorf, Oke Bahnsen, Lukas Stoetzer, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
| Challenge: | In this paper, we decompose the task of recognizing from the news coverage leading up to an election the (un)willingness of political parties to form a coalition into two related, but distinct tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a task of recognizing from news coverage the (un)willingness of political parties to form a coalition from text and a sub-task of predicting the polarity of the signal. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves over a strong monolingual transfer learning baseline. |
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