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arXiv cs.CL bot Oct 12, 2023

Social media has become a major driver of social change, by facilitating the formation of online social movements. Automatically understanding the perspectives driving the movement and the voices opposing it, is a challenging task as annotated data is difficult to obtain. We propose a weakly supervised graph-based approach that explicitly models perspectives in #BackLivesMatter-related tweets. Our proposed approach utilizes a social-linguistic representation of the data. We convert the text to a graph by breaking it into structured elements and connect it with the social network of authors, then structured prediction is done over the elements for identifying perspectives. Our approach uses a small seed set of labeled examples. We experiment with large language models for generating artificial training examples, compare them to manual annotation, and find that it achieves comparable performance. We perform quantitative and qualitative analyses using a human-annotated test set. Our model outperforms multitask baselines by a large margin, successfully characterizing the perspectives supporting and opposing #BLM.
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07155v1]

"A Tale of Two Movements": Identifying and Comparing Perspectives in #BlackLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter Movements-related Tweets using Weakly Supervised Graph-based Structured Prediction

Social media has become a major driver of social change, by facilitating the formation of online social movements. Automatically understanding the perspectives driving the movement and the voices opposing it, is a challenging task as annotated data is difficult to obtain. We propose a weakly supervised graph-based approach that explicitly models perspectives in #BackLivesMatter-related tweets. Our proposed approach utilizes a social-linguistic representation of the data. We convert the text to a graph by breaking it into structured elements and connect it with the social network of authors, then structured prediction is done over the elements for identifying perspectives. Our approach uses a small seed set of labeled examples. We experiment with large language models for generating artificial training examples, compare them to manual annotation, and find that it achieves comparable performance. We perform quantitative and qualitative analyses using a human-annotated test set. Our model outperforms multitask baselines by a large margin, successfully characterizing the perspectives supporting and opposing #BLM.

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👑 Kingsley

May 3, 2023

🤔 . This is a fact going back to slavery.

Touré.
Many Black people struggle with internalized racism. Almost all white people have internalized racism, they're just not struggling with it. They don't even know it's in them.

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 25, 2023

🤔 . Everyone is waiting on this sista. I am all about some Fani 🤩 .

D.A. Fani Willis to decide on Georgia election probe charges in summer

Willis has been investigating whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his narrow election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia

🔗 : https://thegrio.com/2023/04/25/d-a-fani-willis-to-decide-on-georgia-election-probe-charges-in-summer/

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 25, 2023

🤔 . Love the Grio. Toure is right on point.

OPINION: Despite concerns about his age and lack of charisma, President #Biden gives #Democrats the best chance at retaining the White House.

✍🏿
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🔗 : https://thegrio.com/2023/04/25/joe-biden-is-running-again-and-this-is-a-good-thing/

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Touré (@Toure) / Twitter

I make media… Prince podcast docuseries "Who Was Prince"... Prince biography Nothing Compares 2 U... podcast Toure Show... IG @toureshow

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 25, 2023

🤔 😆 A titan of the civil rights movement. Rest in Power.

Harry Belafonte has died at age 96 : NPR

🔗 : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/516446742/harry-belafonte-dead

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 25, 2023

🤔 😆 #President #Biden went full in on #DarkBrandon. I just bought this t-shirt.

@joebiden 🔗 : https://shop.joebiden.com/dark-tshirt/

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 25, 2023

🤔 . I am endorsing #Biden. 😆 . I like Biden. It's Biden or fascism. The choice is an easy one.

Let’s! Finish! The! Job!

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I’m ready for 4 more years with Joe. President Biden along with Vice President Harris have gotten more done than any President in my lifetime.

Let’s go! #BidenHarris2024

🤔 🙄 🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1650801827728986112

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Joe Biden for President: Official Campaign Website

Together, we can finish the job for the American people. Are you with us? Join our campaign to re-elect Joe Biden today!

Joe Biden for President: Official Campaign Website

👑 Kingsley

Apr 20, 2023

🤔 . I am not surprise. My doctor is a person of color and I can tell you it makes me much more comfortable about the care I am receiving.

Study Finds African Americans Live Longer in Counties with More Black Doctors

🔗 : https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/20/headlines/study_finds_african_americans_live_longer_in_counties_with_more_black_doctors

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Study Finds African Americans Live Longer in Counties with More Black Doctors

The Journal of the American Medical Association finds that Black people living in U.S. counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, whether or not they are treated by those doctors. Research has shown that when Black doctors treat Black patients, health outcomes are more positive, including in preventive care. Less than 6% of U.S. doctors are Black, around half the proportion of Black people in the U.S. population.

Democracy Now!

👑 Kingsley

Apr 20, 2023

🤔 🙄 . This is the fruit of #FoxNews misinformation campaign: #Death

The 84-year-old #white man accused of shooting #RalphYarl in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell “spent considerable time at home in a living room chair, watching conservative news programs at high volume,” one of his relatives told The New York Times.

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Andrew Lester, Man Who Shot Ralph Yarl, Held Racist, Homophobic Views: Relative

Andrew Lester, 84, “spent considerable time at home in a living room chair, watching conservative news programs at high volume,” the relative said.

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👑 Kingsley

Apr 20, 2023

🤔 😆 🙄 😆 .

Passengers behaving badly but does he have a point?

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1648493597963227136

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justasisterfromthechi on Twitter

“This man is upset that the baby is crying loudly on his flight, depending on how the parents handle things, I can somewhat understand, I’ve seen far too many parents who do little to nothing and I’ve also detected a sense of entitlement….IJS”

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