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groupappealslab/groupappeals_classifier_negative
groupappeals_classifier_negative is a zero-shot classification model from groupappealslab. Use it when you need labels you did not train the model on. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as mit.
This model classifies the valence of rhetorical appeals by politicians to groups ("group appeals") in political speech.
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This model classifies the valence of rhetorical appeals by politicians to groups ("group appeals") in political speech.
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.
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.
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