Why does the president tweet this? Discovering reasons and contexts for politicians' tweets from news articles

Ziyue Li, Hang Hu, He Wang, Luwei Cai, Haipeng Zhang, Kunpeng Zhang

Abstract: Highlights•A first end-to-end framework discovering causal backgrounds for politicians’ tweets.•A clause-based Open IE system with considerations on rule-free representations.•We find implicit causalities between tweets and news articles.•Experiment results correspond well with political journalists’ analysis.•We publish a first well-curated tweet-intent-interpretation benchmark dataset.