Hope vs. Hate: Understanding User Interactions with LGBTQ+ News Content in Mainstream US News Media through the Lens of Hope Speech (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines how users interact with LGBTQ+ news content . a corpus of 1,419,047 comments on 3,161 YouTube news videos is used to analyze the content - both positive and negative - of cable news outlets. |
| Approach: | They analyze how users interact with LGBTQ+ news content via a corpus of 1,419,047 comments on 3,161 YouTube news videos of major US cable news outlets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed classifier detects positive (hope speech), negative, neutral, and irrelevant content. |
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