4 papers
Politics of Questions in News: A Mixed-Methods Study of Interrogative Stances as Markers of Voice and Power
Bros Victor, Barbini Matilde, Gerard Patrick +1
Interrogatives in news discourse have been examined in linguistics and conversation analysis, but mostly in broadcast interviews and relatively small, often English-language corpor…
Density-Guided Response Optimization: Community-Grounded Alignment via Implicit Acceptance Signals
Patrick Gerard, Svitlana Volkova
Language models deployed in online communities must adapt to norms that vary across social, cultural, and domain-specific contexts. Prior alignment approaches rely on explicit pref…
Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceri, Leonardo Blas +1
Online narratives spread unevenly across platforms, with content emerging on one site often appearing on others, hours, days or weeks later. Existing cross-platform information dif…
Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri +1
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented in…