7 papers
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…
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…
What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?
Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Dominik Stammbach +1
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate politically biased text. Yet, it remains unclear how such biases arise, making it difficult to design effective mitigation strate…
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…
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…
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…