Learning Latent Local Conversation Modes for Predicting Community Endorsement in Online Discussions
Table 3: Test macro F1 scores for models with and without the gating mechanism. All models use latent modes to represent the submission context information.
['[EMPTY]', 'AskMen', 'AskWomen', 'Politics']
The un-gated variant uses d instead of ~d for prediction. Without the gating mechanism, textual information provides significant improvement for AskMen and AskWomen but not for Politics. With the introduced dynamic gating mechanism, the textual information is used more effectively for all three subreddits.