BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendarize//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendarize-antrittsvorlesung-andreas-spitz DTSTAMP:20240329T050954Z DTSTART:20221207T141500Z DTEND:20221207T151500Z SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Andreas Spitz DESCRIPTION:The Best Words: Web-scale Mining of News Quotes\nA substantial majority of Americans share the belief that political discourse has becom e more negative and that the press is increasingly less reliable. However\ , as is often the case in politics\, talk is cheap and hard data is diffic ult to come by. To obtain quantitative answers\, neural language models al low us to exploit the parallelism in news reporting to extract and attribu te politician's quotes from the news at web-scale. Using Quotebank\, a com prehensive corpus of 235 million unique quotes from a decade of news\, I w ill demonstrate how this data can be used to quantify trends in the use of political and journalistic language. In particular\, I will focus on the uptick in negativity in U.S. politicians' language\, quantify the shifts i n language tone\, and begin to unravel the decline in journalistic objecti vity in the reporting of quotes in the news. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A substantial majority of Americans share the belief that political discourse has become more negative and that the press is increasingly less reliable. However\, as is often the case in po litics\, talk is cheap and hard data is difficult to come by. To obtain qu antitative answers\, neural language models allow us to exploit the parall elism in news reporting to extract and attribute politician's quotes from the news at web-scale. Using Quotebank\, a comprehensive corpus of 235 mil lion unique quotes from a decade of news\, I will demonstrate how this dat a can be used to quantify trends in the use of political and journalistic language. In particular\, I will focus on the uptick in negativity in U.S. politicians' language\, quantify the shifts in language tone\, and begin to unravel the decline in journalistic objectivity in the reporting of quo tes in the news.
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