NLDS-UCSC at SemEval-2016 task 6: A semi-supervised approach to detecting stance in tweets

SemEval 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 420-427

  Misra, Amita ^a   Ecker, Brian ^a   Handleman, Theodore ^a   Hahn, Nicolas ^a   Walker, Marilyn ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATASET; SEMANTICS;

HASHTAGS; HIGH-PRECISION; OPINION TARGETS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SENTIMENT LEXICONS; TRAINING CORPUS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85021669331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/s16-1068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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