| Challenge: | a recent study shows correlation between political ideologies and moral foundations expressed in text . a moral foundation theory suggests that there are five basic moral values which underlie human moral perspectives . |
| Approach: | They propose to model the moral foundations of tweets by using an annotation framework . they propose to use policy frames to predict the morality of political tweets . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can predict moral foundations of political tweets, the authors show . their model can be used to predict political slogans and political ideologies, they say . |
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