4 papers
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…
Reap the Wild Wind: Detecting Media Storms in Large-Scale News Corpora
Dror K. Markus, Effi Levi, Tamir Sheafer +1
Media Storms, dramatic outbursts of attention to a story, are central components of media dynamics and the attention landscape. Despite their significance, there has been little sy…