Frame Semantics for Stance Classification

• Linguistic: induce semantic frame and syntactic dependency-based patterns that aim to capture the meaning of a sentence and use them as features • Extra-linguistic: improve the classification of a test post by exploiting the information in other test posts that are likely to have the same stance Aim: improve a learner’s ability to generalize by inducing patterns based on semantic frames and use them as features so that semantically similar sentences can be detected.