Yuanyuan Lei, Md Messal Monem Miah, Ayesha Qamar, Sai Ramana Reddy, Jonathan Tong, Haotian Xu, Ruihong Huang
| Challenge: | Recent work on news articles has focused on social media short texts, but little has explored moral sentiment within news articles. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract event-level moral opinions from news articles using a new dataset . they use annotated event-based moral opinions to analyze news articles . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset consists of 400 news articles containing over 10k sentences and 45k events, among which 9,613 events received moral foundation labels. |
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