Agonism plays a vital role in democratic dialogue by fostering diverse
perspectives and robust discussions. Within the realm of online conflict there
is another type: hateful antagonism, which undermines constructive dialogue.
Detecting conflict online is central to platform moderation and monetization.
It is also vital for democratic dialogue, but only when it takes the form of
agonism. To model these two types of conflict, we collected Twitter
conversations related to trending controversial topics. We introduce a
comprehensive annotation schema for labelling different dimensions of conflict
in the conversations, such as the source of conflict, the target, and the
rhetorical strategies deployed. Using this schema, we annotated approximately
4,000 conversations with multiple labels. We then trained both logistic
regression and transformer-based models on the dataset, incorporating context
from the conversation, including the number of participants and the structure
of the interactions. Results show that contextual labels are helpful in
identifying conflict and make the models robust to variations in topic. Our
research contributes a conceptualization of different dimensions of conflict, a
richly annotated dataset, and promising results that can contribute to content
moderation.

我们介绍了一个维度标注系统，用于标记线上争论中的不同冲突。通过使用这个系统，我们对大约 4000 个 Twitter 对话进行了标注，并训练了逻辑回归和基于 transformer 的模型。研究结果表明，上下文标签有助于识别冲突，并使模型对话题的变化具有鲁棒性。我们的研究为冲突的不同维度提供了概念化，一个丰富标注的数据集，并取得了有益的成果，可用于内容管理。