Who Sides With Whom? Towards Computational Construction of
Discourse Networks for Political Debates
Abstract
Understanding the structures of political debates (which actors make what claims) is essential for understanding democratic political
decision-making. The vision of computational
construction of such discourse networks from
newspaper reports brings together political science and natural language processing. This
paper presents three contributions towards this
goal: (a) a requirements analysis, linking the
task to knowledge base population; (b) a first
release of an annotated corpus of claims on the
topic of migration, based on German newspaper reports; (c) initial modeling results.