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

Shamik Roy     Dan Goldwasser    
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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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.


Bib Entry

  @InProceedings{RG_emnlp_20,
    author = "Shamik Roy and Dan Goldwasser",
    title = "Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media",
    booktitle = "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
    year = "2020"
  }