Encoding Social Information with Graph Convolutional Networks forPolitical Perspective Detection in News Media (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Identifying the political perspective shaping the way news events are discussed in the media is an important and challenging task. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural architecture for representing relational information to capture social context of news documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better than supervised models in the supervised setting and shows that it provides a distant supervision signal. |
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