Using Social and Linguistic Information to Adapt Pretrained Representations for Political Perspective Identification (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a new framework for political perspective detection is proposed to improve text training costs . current deep learning models lack the ability to focus on text span for bias detection . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that pretrains the text model using social and linguistic contexts . they demonstrate that the framework improves performance by identifying bias-related text spans based on entity mentions and news sharing . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on two news bias datasets and improves performance on the general source and task. |
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