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ControBench benchmark released for analyzing controversial online discourse

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Researchers have introduced ControBench, a new benchmark designed to analyze controversial online discussions by integrating social interaction graphs with rich textual data. This benchmark, derived from Reddit conversations on topics like Trump, abortion, and religion, includes detailed user and post information along with interaction structures. ControBench aims to provide a more realistic evaluation of models in understanding political polarization, misinformation, and content moderation by capturing complex argumentative contexts and user ideological identities. AI

IMPACT Provides a new dataset for evaluating LLMs and GNNs on complex social discourse analysis.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper introducing a new benchmark dataset.

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ControBench benchmark released for analyzing controversial online discourse

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ta Thanh Thuy, Jiaqi Zhu, Xuan Liu, Lin Shang, Reihaneh Rabbany, Guillaume Rabusseau, Lihui Chen, Zheng Yilun, Sitao Luan ·

    ControBench: An Interaction-Aware Benchmark for Controversial Discourse Analysis on Social Networks

    arXiv:2605.00513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how people argue across ideological divides online is important for studying political polarization, misinformation, and content moderation. Existing datasets capture only part of this problem: some preserve text but…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Sitao Luan ·

    ControBench: An Interaction-Aware Benchmark for Controversial Discourse Analysis on Social Networks

    Understanding how people argue across ideological divides online is important for studying political polarization, misinformation, and content moderation. Existing datasets capture only part of this problem: some preserve text but ignore interaction structure, some model structur…

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