Papers with Media Insight Project
Fact vs. Opinion: the Role of Argumentation Features in News Classification (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | A 2018 study led by the Media Insight Project showed that most journalists think that their news organizations should clearly mark what is news reporting and what is commentary or opinion in order to combat fake news and gain public trust. |
| Approach: | They propose to classify news articles into newsstories and opinion pieces using models that aim to sup-plement the article content representation with argumentation features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms linguistic features and improves on fine-tuned transformer-based models on data from publishers. |