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title = "Connecting the Dots in News Analysis: Bridging the Cross-Disciplinary Disparities in Media Bias and Framing",
author = "Vallejo, Gisela and
Baldwin, Timothy and
Frermann, Lea",
editor = "Card, Dallas and
Field, Anjalie and
Hovy, Dirk and
Keith, Katherine",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS 2024)",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlpcss-1.2",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.nlpcss-1.2",
pages = "16--31",
abstract = "The manifestation and effect of bias in news reporting have been central topics in the social sciences for decades, and have received increasing attention in the NLP community recently. While NLP can help to scale up analyses or contribute automatic procedures to investigate the impact of biased news in society, we argue that methodologies that are currently dominant fall short of capturing the complex questions and effects addressed in theoretical media studies. This is problematic because it diminishes the validity and safety of the resulting tools and applications. Here, we review and critically compare task formulations, methods and evaluation schemes in the social sciences and NLP. We discuss open questions and suggest possible directions to close identified gaps between theory and predictive models, and their evaluation. These include model transparency, considering document-external information, and cross-document reasoning.",
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%Y Field, Anjalie
%Y Hovy, Dirk
%Y Keith, Katherine
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%D 2024
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%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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Markdown (Informal)
[Connecting the Dots in News Analysis: Bridging the Cross-Disciplinary Disparities in Media Bias and Framing](https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlpcss-1.2) (Vallejo et al., NLP+CSS-WS 2024)
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