The University of Sheffield
School of Computer Science

Jack Han Undergraduate Dissertation 2017/18

Stance Detection on Online Forum Posts

Supervised by A.Vlachos

Abstract

The project demonstrates supervised machine learning approaches to stance detection on forum posts.

The approaches are: Support Vector Machines and Long Short-Term Memory.

Investigations into how the textual similarity of the topic of training data and the topic of testing data affects the accuracy of classifiers were made.