Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey. (arXiv:2005.09649v2 [cs.SI] UPDATED)

On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly consequential election in which
the Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election
under a new presidential system. During the election period, the Turkish people
extensively shared their political opinions on Twitter. One aspect of
polarization among the electorate was support for or opposition to the
reelection of Recep Tayyip Erdo\u{g}an. In this paper, we present an
unsupervised method for target-specific stance detection in a polarized
setting, specifically Turkish …

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