AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 5h ago5/10
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Directed Social Regard: Surfacing Targeted Advocacy, Opposition, Aid, Harms, and Victimization in Online Media
Researchers introduce Directed Social Regard (DSR), an NLP framework that detects and scores mixed sentiment targets in online messages across multiple dimensions. Unlike traditional sentiment analysis tools that classify text as simply positive or negative, DSR identifies specific targets of both pro-social and anti-social sentiments within the same message, with applications to analyzing influence operations and political rhetoric.