Fracking Twitter: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Tools for the Identification of Coalition and Causal Narratives

• In Event: The Narrative Environment: Stories of Humans and Nature

Brief Overview

We employ natural language processing and machine learning models for automatically hand-coding Twitter users into coalitions. Additionally, we are training a classifier to detect different policy narrative/casual stories included in tweets.

Authors

• Andrew Pattison, Colgate University

• William Cipolli, Colgate University

• Jose Marichal, California Lutheran University