Automatic Classification of Neutralization Techniques in the Narrative of Climate Change Scepticism (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | neutralisation is used to justify lack of action or promote an alternative view of climate change . action on climate change has become an increasingly partisan issue with strong opposition voices discrediting scientists and spreading scepticism and misinformation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use neutralisation techniques to introduce the problem to the nlp community and to collect manual annotations of neutralised techniques in text relating to climate change. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are supervised and semi-supervised by a team of researchers from the nlp and the ccsc. |
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