Talking Point based Ideological Discourse Analysis in News Events (2025.findings-acl)
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Nishanth Sridhar Nakshatri, Nikhil Mehta, Siyi Liu, Sihao Chen, Daniel Hopkins, Dan Roth, Dan Goldwasser
| Challenge: | Existing models of ideological discourse analysis fail to capture the key elements that shape real-world narratives and lack the ability to integrate contextual information required for understanding abstract ideological views. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework motivated by the theory of ideological discourse analysis to analyze news articles related to real-world events. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can generate ideology-specific viewpoints (partisan perspectives) it can be used to generate event snapshots, a visual way of interpreting event discourse. |
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