Model Card for groupappeals_classifier_positive

This model classifies the valence of rhetorical appeals by politicians to groups ("group appeals") in political speech.

Model Details

Model Description

This model adapts Mike Burnham's zero shot model for political stance detection, which is itself an adaptation of Moritz Laurer's zero shot model for classifying political texts. It is trained for the more specific use of classifying the valence of rhetorical appeals by politicians to groups ("group appeals") in political speech. The model takes in sentences that are formatted so as to mention the sender/speaker and the group mentioned (i.e. the 'dyad') of the form: "Politician from {party} mentioning a group ({group}): '{text}'". It returns the probability that the speaker is making a negative appeal to the group. To be used together with groupappeals_classifier_positive.

Developed by: Christoffer H. Dausgaard & Frederik Hjorth
Model type: Fine-tuned DeBERTa-model
License: mit
Finetuned from model: deberta-v3-base-polistance-affect-v1.0
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Training Details

Training Data

The model was trained using a subset of the ParlSpeech v2 dataset that covers the universe of parliamentary speeches in the UK House of Commons from 1988-2019. The subset consists of 2,534 sentences manually coded by the authors. The sentences were randomly sampled within party- and group-strata, with oversampling of negative sentences.

Training Procedure

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Training Hyperparameters

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Evaluation

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BibTeX:

groupappealslab
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groupappeals_classifier_negative