5 papers
The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan
We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We…
Location Not Found: Exposing Implicit Local and Global Biases in Multilingual LLMs
Guy Mor-Lan, Omer Goldman, Matan Eyal +6
Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have minimized the fluency gap between languages. This advancement, however, exposes models to the risk of biased behavior, as knowledge a…
FactAppeal: Identifying Epistemic Factual Appeals in News Media
Guy Mor-Lan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav
How is a factual claim made credible? We propose the novel task of Epistemic Appeal Identification, which identifies whether and how factual statements have been anchored by extern…
HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Guy Mor-Lan, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Yael R. Kaplan +2
Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts and expressed through particular uses of lan…
You're Not Gonna Believe This: A Computational Analysis of Factual Appeals and Sourcing in Partisan News
Guy Mor-Lan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav
While media bias is widely studied, the epistemic strategies behind factual reporting remain computationally underexplored. This paper analyzes these strategies through a large-sca…