Social identity information retrieval system (SIIRS) : final report / by Brian Riordan.: D68-3/135-2014E-PDF
Development of the SIIRS system focused on the specific problem of detecting and classifying sociostructural beliefs from Social Identity Theory -- beliefs about the legitimacy, stability, and permeability of social groups and their status. A dataset of social media comments centering on the issue of income inequality was collected and analyzed, and a system was built to classify implicit author beliefs on the legitimacy of class-based income disparity. Because of the heavily implicit nature of sociostructural belief expression, the detection problem was formulated as a form of text classification. The SIIRS system achieved classification accuracies competitive with results from similar tasks in social media analysis, demonstrating the feasibility of the approach.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Defence R&D Canada. Aptima, Inc. |
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| Title | Social identity information retrieval system (SIIRS) : final report / by Brian Riordan. |
| Series title | Contract report ; 2014-C135 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | "Submission Date: March 31, 2014." Includes bibliographical references. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Defence Research and Development Canada, c2014. |
| Author / Contributor | Riordan, Brian. Wade, Heather. |
| Description | vi, 40 p. : figs, tables. |
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| Subject terms | Technical reports |