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网络新闻中的争议与情感

Controversy and Sentiment in Online News

Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);University of Maryland(马里兰大学);MIT CSAIL(麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室)

Yelena Mejova, Amy X. Zhang, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Carlos Castillo

摘要:

新闻来源如何处理有争议的问题?在这项工作中,我们采取数据驱动的方法来了解争议如何与新闻中的情感表达和偏见语言相互作用。我们首先介绍一个新的数据集,其中包含使用众包收集的有争议和无争议的术语。然后,重点关注美国15家主要新闻媒体,我们比较了7个月内讨论有争议和无争议问题的数百万篇文章。我们发现,在一般情况下,当涉及到有争议的问题,使用负面影响和偏见的语言是普遍的,而使用强烈的情绪是缓和。我们还观察到不同新闻来源之间的许多差异。利用这些发现,我们表明,我们可以表明在何种程度上的问题是有争议的,通过比较它与其他问题,他们是如何在不同的媒体描绘。

英文摘要:

How do news sources tackle controversial issues? In this work, we take a data-driven approach to understand how controversy interplays with emotional expression and biased language in the news. We begin by introducing a new dataset of controversial and non-controversial terms collected using crowdsourcing. Then, focusing on 15 major U.S. news outlets, we compare millions of articles discussing controversial and non-controversial issues over a span of 7 months. We find that in general, when it comes to controversial issues, the use of negative affect and biased language is prevalent, while the use of strong emotion is tempered. We also observe many differences across news sources. Using these findings, we show that we can indicate to what extent an issue is controversial, by comparing it with other issues in terms of how they are portrayed across different media.

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