Propaganda aims at influencing people’s mindset with the purpose of advancing a specific agenda. Previous work has addressed propaganda detection at document level, typically labelling all articles from a propagandistic news outlet as propaganda. Such noisy gold labels inevitably affect the quality of any learning system trained on them. A further issue with most existing systems is the lack of explainability. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel task: performing fine-grained analysis of texts by detecting all fragments that contain propaganda techniques as well as their type. In particular, we create a corpus of news articles manually annotated at fragment level with eighteen propaganda techniques and propose a suitable evaluation measure. We further design a novel multi-granularity neural network, and we show that it outperforms several strong BERT-based baselines.

Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article / Da San Martino, Giovanni; Yu, Seunghak; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Petrov, Rostislav; Nakov, Preslav. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 5636-5646. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) tenutosi a Hong Kong, China nel November 2019) [10.18653/v1/D19-1565].

Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article

Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto;
2019

Abstract

Propaganda aims at influencing people’s mindset with the purpose of advancing a specific agenda. Previous work has addressed propaganda detection at document level, typically labelling all articles from a propagandistic news outlet as propaganda. Such noisy gold labels inevitably affect the quality of any learning system trained on them. A further issue with most existing systems is the lack of explainability. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel task: performing fine-grained analysis of texts by detecting all fragments that contain propaganda techniques as well as their type. In particular, we create a corpus of news articles manually annotated at fragment level with eighteen propaganda techniques and propose a suitable evaluation measure. We further design a novel multi-granularity neural network, and we show that it outperforms several strong BERT-based baselines.
2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
5636
5646
Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article / Da San Martino, Giovanni; Yu, Seunghak; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Petrov, Rostislav; Nakov, Preslav. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 5636-5646. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) tenutosi a Hong Kong, China nel November 2019) [10.18653/v1/D19-1565].
Da San Martino, Giovanni; Yu, Seunghak; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Petrov, Rostislav; Nakov, Preslav
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