Print Email Facebook Twitter Preparing Stance Detection: Feature Extraction Methods and Their Performance Used for Feature-Based Machine Learning Algorithms Title Preparing Stance Detection: Feature Extraction Methods and Their Performance Used for Feature-Based Machine Learning Algorithms Author Vass, Kristóf (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; TU Delft Intelligent Systems) Contributor Murukannaiah, P.K. (mentor) Marroquim, Ricardo (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science and Engineering Project CSE3000 Research Project Date 2021-07-01 Abstract Stance detection is a Natural Language Processing task that aims to detect the stance (support, agreement, or disagreement) of a piece of text towards some target. In this paper, we aim to find the best performing pair of feature extraction method and feature-based machine learning algorithm. By doing so, an explainable method can be found to show how to solve stance detection problems. After researching the most common techniques, twenty different combinations are evaluated. We have found that the best performing pair is Word N-gram used with Logistic Regression, which achieves an F-score of 0.599 and an accuracy of 0.66. Subject Stance DetectionMachine LearningNatural Language Processing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:82ada98d-f99e-4f05-8d9d-9d0831c68c73 Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2021 Kristóf Vass Files PDF KKVass_Final_Paper.pdf 620.33 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:82ada98d-f99e-4f05-8d9d-9d0831c68c73/datastream/OBJ/view