Yanchuan Sim
Carnegie Mellon University
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siam international conference on data mining | 2015
Minghui Qiu; Yanchuan Sim; Noah A. Smith; Jing Jiang
Online debate forums are important social media for people to voice their opinions and debate with each other. Mining user stances or viewpoints from these forums has been a popular research topic. However, most current work does not address an important problem: for a specific issue, there may not be many users participating and expressing their opinions. Despite the sparsity of user stances, users may provide rich side information; for example, users may write arguments to back up their stances, interact with each other, and provide biographical information. In this work, we propose an integrated model to leverage side information. Our proposed method is a regression-based latent factor model which jointly models user arguments, interactions, and attributes. Our method can perform stance prediction for both warm-start and cold-start users. We demonstrate in experiments that our method has promising results on both micro-level and macro-level stance prediction.
empirical methods in natural language processing | 2016
Yanchuan Sim; Bryan R. Routledge; Noah A. Smith
We present a probabilistic model of the influence of language on the behavior of the U.S. Supreme Court, specifically influence of amicus briefs on Court decisions and opinions. The approach assumes that amici are rational, utility-maximizing agents who try to win votes or affect the language of court opinions. Our model leads to improved predictions of justices’ votes and perplexity of opinion language. It is amenable to inspection, allowing us to explore inferences about the persuasiveness of different amici and influenceability of different justices; these are consistent with earlier findings. “Language is the central tool of our trade.” John G. Roberts, 2007 (Garner, 2010)
empirical methods in natural language processing | 2013
Yanchuan Sim; Brice D.L. Acree; Justin H. Gross; Noah A. Smith
empirical methods in natural language processing | 2013
Swapna Gottipati; Minghui Qiu; Yanchuan Sim; Jing Jiang; Noah A. Smith
national conference on artificial intelligence | 2015
Yanchuan Sim; Bryan R. Routledge; Noah A. Smith
meeting of the association for computational linguistics | 2012
Yanchuan Sim; Noah A. Smith; David A. Smith
Archive | 2013
Justin H. Gross; Brice D.L. Acree; Yanchuan Sim; Noah A. Smith
meeting of the association for computational linguistics | 2012
Dani Yogatama; Yanchuan Sim; Noah A. Smith
American Politics Research | 2018
Brice D.L. Acree; Justin H. Gross; Noah A. Smith; Yanchuan Sim; Amber E. Boydstun
Archive | 2015
Yanchuan Sim; Bryan R. Routledge; Noah A. Smith