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Media Bias in German News Articles: A Combined Approach
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AbstractSlanted news coverage, also called media bias, can heavily influence how news consumers interpret and react to the news. Models to identify and describe biases have been proposed across various scientific fields, focusing mostly on English media. In this paper, we propose a method for analyzing media bias in German media. We test different natural language processing techniques and combinations thereof. Specifically, we combine an IDF-based component, a specially created bias lexicon, and a linguistic lexicon. We also flexibly extend our lexica by the usage of word embeddings. We evaluate the system and methods in a survey (N = 46), comparing the bias words our system detected to human annotations. So far, the best component combination results in an F$$_{1}$$1score of 0.31 of words that were identified as biased by our system and our study participants. The low performance shows that the analysis of media bias is still a difficult task, but using fewer resources, we achieved the same performance on the same task than recent research on English. We summarize the next steps in improving the resources and the overall results.
Springer International Publishing
Title: Media Bias in German News Articles: A Combined Approach
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AbstractSlanted news coverage, also called media bias, can heavily influence how news consumers interpret and react to the news.
Models to identify and describe biases have been proposed across various scientific fields, focusing mostly on English media.
In this paper, we propose a method for analyzing media bias in German media.
We test different natural language processing techniques and combinations thereof.
Specifically, we combine an IDF-based component, a specially created bias lexicon, and a linguistic lexicon.
We also flexibly extend our lexica by the usage of word embeddings.
We evaluate the system and methods in a survey (N = 46), comparing the bias words our system detected to human annotations.
So far, the best component combination results in an F$$_{1}$$1score of 0.
31 of words that were identified as biased by our system and our study participants.
The low performance shows that the analysis of media bias is still a difficult task, but using fewer resources, we achieved the same performance on the same task than recent research on English.
We summarize the next steps in improving the resources and the overall results.
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