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most citedMultilingual estimation of political-party positioning: From label aggregation to long-input Transformers

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Structuring the Space of Perspectives

Agnese Daffara, Sebastian Padó, Tanise Ceron

The same event can be reported from different perspectives depending on the experiences, background, and beliefs of the writer or speaker. A variety of NLP areas engage with perspe…

cs.IR2025

Leveraging Media Frames to Improve Normative Diversity in News Recommendations

Sourabh Dattawad, Agnese Daffara, Tanise Ceron

Click-based news recommender systems suggest users content that aligns with their existing history, limiting the diversity of articles they encounter. Recent advances in aspect-bas…

cs.CL2025

What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?

Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Dominik Stammbach +1

Large language models (LLMs) reflect politically-slanted opinions in their generated text. Even though it is widely assumed that model behavior stem from training data, there has b…

cs.IR2025

Democratizing News Recommenders: Modeling Multiple Perspectives for News Candidate Generation with VQ-VAE

Hardy, Sebastian Padó, Amelie Wührl +1

News Recommender Systems (NRS) shape what users read, whose perspectives they encounter, and influence public discourse. Yet their design is value-laden: intentionally or not, NRS…

cs.CL2025

Do Political Opinions Transfer Between Western Languages? An Analysis of Unaligned and Aligned Multilingual LLMs

Franziska Weeber, Tanise Ceron, Sebastian Padó

Public opinion surveys show cross-cultural differences in political opinions between socio-cultural contexts. However, there is no clear evidence whether these differences translat…

cs.CL2025

Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries

Agnese Daffara, Sourabh Dattawad, Sebastian Padó +1

Frames capture aspects of an issue that are emphasized in a debate by interlocutors and can help us understand how political language conveys different perspectives and ultimately…

cs.CL2024

Toeing the Party Line: Election Manifestos as a Key to Understand Political Discourse on Twitter

Maximilian Maurer, Tanise Ceron, Sebastian Padó +1

Political discourse on Twitter is a moving target: politicians continuously make statements about their positions. It is therefore crucial to track their discourse on social media…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Beyond prompt brittleness: Evaluating the reliability and consistency of political worldviews in LLMs

Tanise Ceron, Neele Falk, Ana Barić +2

Due to the widespread use of large language models (LLMs), we need to understand whether they embed a specific "worldview" and what these views reflect. Recent studies report that,…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Multilingual estimation of political-party positioning: From label aggregation to long-input Transformers

Dmitry Nikolaev, Tanise Ceron, Sebastian Padó

Scaling analysis is a technique in computational political science that assigns a political actor (e.g. politician or party) a score on a predefined scale based on a (typically lon…

cs.CL2023

Additive manifesto decomposition: A policy domain aware method for understanding party positioning

Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Sebastian Padó

Automatic extraction of party (dis)similarities from texts such as party election manifestos or parliamentary speeches plays an increasing role in computational political science.…

cs.CL2022

Optimizing text representations to capture (dis)similarity between political parties

Tanise Ceron, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Padó

Even though fine-tuned neural language models have been pivotal in enabling "deep" automatic text analysis, optimizing text representations for specific applications remains a cruc…