Papers by Julia Runeson
“We will Reduce Taxes” - Identifying Election Pledges with Language Models (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a political party's manifestos are published before any election, but do they follow through? a new study uses neural models to distinguish between actual pledges and general statements . |
| Approach: | They use election manifestos of Swedish and Indian political parties to learn neural models that distinguish actual pledges from generic positions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can predict election year and manifesto's party, while context introduces noise. |