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Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media

Computation and Language 2020-09-22 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper we suggest a minimally-supervised approach for identifying nuanced frames in news article coverage of politically divisive topics. We suggest to break the broad policy frames suggested by Boydstun et al., 2014 into fine-grained subframes which can capture differences in political ideology in a better way. We evaluate the suggested subframes and their embedding, learned using minimal supervision, over three topics, namely, immigration, gun-control and abortion. We demonstrate the ability of the subframes to capture ideological differences and analyze political discourse in news media.

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@article{arxiv.2009.09609,
  title  = {Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media},
  author = {Shamik Roy and Dan Goldwasser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09609},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, 6 figures, Will appear in EMNLP 2020

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