Classification without (Proper) Representation: Political Heterogeneity in Social Media and Its Implications for Classification and Behavioral Analysis (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Prior work has shown that partisan leanings can be inferred from a diverse set of behavioral characteristics such as text, social networks, and even community participation. |
| Approach: | They test this assumption and show that commonly-used models do not generalize . they also show that political users are more toxic on the platform and inter-party interactions are even more toxic . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models do not generalize, indicating heterogeneous political users. |
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