Using New York Times Picks to Identify Constructive Comments
Published in Proceedings of NLP meets journalism workshop, 2017
Recommended citation: Varada Kolhatkar and Maite Taboada. 2017. Using New York Times Picks to Identify Constructive Comments. In Proceedings of NLP meets journalism workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, pages 100-105. https://aclanthology.info/papers/W17-4218/w17-4218
We examine the extent to which we are able to automatically identify constructive online comments. We build several classifiersusing New York Times Picks as positive examples and non-constructive thread comments from the Yahoo News AnnotatedComments Corpus as negative examples of constructive online comments. We evaluate these classifiers on a crowd-annotatedcorpus containing 1,121 comments. Our best classifier achieves a top F1 score of 0.84.