We present a new approach to the automated classification of document-level argument stance, a relatively underresearched sub-task of Sentiment Analysis. In place of the noisy online debate data currently used in stance classification research, a corpus of student essays annotated for essaylevel stance is constructed for use in a series of classification experiments. A novel set of features des...

Sentiment analysis is a wide area with great potential and many research directions. One direction is stance detection, which is somewhat similar to sentiment analysis. We supplement stance detection dataset with sentiment annotation and explore the similarities of these tasks. We show that stance detection and sentiment analysis can be mutually beneficial by using gold label for one task as fe...

Walking is often modeled as an inverted pendulum system in which the center of mass vaults over the rigid stance limb. Running is modeled as a simple spring-mass system in which the center of mass bounces along on the compliant stance limb. In these models, differences in stance-limb behavior lead to nearly opposite patterns of vertical movements of the center of mass in the two gaits. Our goal...

The relations among swing, stance and step durations for the fore and hind limbs were investigated. Registration of the swing and stance phases was performed by the opening and closing of an electrical circuit as the cat moved along the conductive pathway. In the walking animal, longer swing and shorter stance durations for hind limbs, in comparison with the fore limbs, were observed. However, ...

Building believable conversational virtual characters that can play the role of a suspect in police interrogations requires a lot of information on human behaviour. In this paper, we try to describe the way in which the stance of a suspect in a police interrogation changes and is decided. We base our stance modelling on Leary’s interpersonal stance theory and add influences from social attitude...

Determining the stance expressed by an author from a post written for a twosided debate in an online debate forum is a relatively new problem. We seek to improve Anand et al.’s (2011) approach to debate stance classification by modeling two types of soft extra-linguistic constraints on the stance labels of debate posts, user-interaction constraints and ideology constraints. Experimental results...

Aspects of stance have significant potential for information retrieval and filtering. This technical report is intended primarily to motivate and document details of the data and annotations used in the work reported in Inferring Stance from Prosody [Ward et al., 2016a]. It describes the process of identifying 14 important aspects of stance, describes two radio-broadcast corpora for investigati...