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Multilingual Multifaceted Understanding of Online News in Terms of Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Jakub Piskorski, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Nicolas Stefanovitch, European Commission Joint Research Centre
  • Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Giovanni Da San Martino, UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Padova
  • Preslav Nakov, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract

We present a new multilingual multifacet dataset of news articles, each annotated for genre (objective news reporting vs. opinion vs. satire), framing (what key aspects are highlighted), and persuasion techniques (logical fallacies, emotional appeals, ad hominem attacks, etc.). The persuasion techniques are annotated at the span level, using a taxonomy of 23 fine-grained techniques grouped into 6 coarse categories. The dataset contains 1,612 news articles covering recent news on current topics of public interest in six European languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian), with more than 37k annotated spans of persuasion techniques. We describe the dataset and the annotation process, and we report the evaluation results of multilabel classification experiments using state-of-the-art multilingual transformers at different levels of granularity: token-level, sentence-level, paragraph-level, and document-level.

Publication Date
7-1-2023
Keywords
  • Computational linguistics,
  • European languages,
  • Evaluation results,
  • Fine grained,
  • Multi-label classifications,
  • News articles,
  • News reporting,
  • On currents,
  • On-currents,
  • Online news,
  • Public interest
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Citation Information
Jakub Piskorski, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Giovanni Da San Martino, et al.. "Multilingual Multifaceted Understanding of Online News in Terms of Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques" Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Vol. 1 (2023) p. 3001 - 3022 ISSN: 0736587X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/preslav-nakov/27/