Comparing values and sentiment using Mechanical Turk

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Clay Templeton;Kenneth R. Fleischmann;Jordan Boyd-Graber

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD;University of Maryland, College Park, MD;University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Human values can help to explain people's sentiment toward current events. In this experiment, we compare people's values with their agreement or disagreement with paragraphs that were classified as either supporting or opposing a specific topic. We found that five value types have statistically significant agreement (p