Papers by Roxana Horincar
From the Stage to the Audience: Propaganda on Reddit (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post highlights a difference between the political discourse in the two countries. |
| Approach: | They analyze political forums on Reddit that target a diverse audience in two countries . they focus on three research questions: who is posting propaganda? and how is propaganda received? |
| Outcome: | The authors analyze political forums on reddit in the US and the UK for one year . they find that propaganda is misleading and is received by different audiences . |
Breaking Down the Invisible Wall of Informal Fallacies in Online Discussions (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a number of people engage in unsound argumentation techniques to prove a claim on online platforms . fallacies are weak arguments that seem convincing, but their evidence does not prove or disprove the conclusion . |
| Approach: | They propose to use user comments containing fallacy mentions as noisy labels to classify fallacies . they use the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation to study the most common fallacias on Reddit . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset of fallacies on reddit shows that neural models perform better in conversational context. |