LexiconLadies at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of Facebook News Headlines on the Israel-Palestine 2023 War

Yousra El-Ghawi, Abeer Marzouk, Aya Khamis


Abstract
News bias is difficult for humans to identify, but even more so for machines. This is largely due to the lack of linguistically appropriate annotated datasets suitable for use by classifier algorithms. The FIGNEWS Subtask 1: Bias Annotation involved classifying bias through manually annotated 1800 headlines from social media. Our proposed guidelines investigated which combinations of keywords available for classification, across sentence and token levels, may be used to detect possible bias in a conflict where neutrality is highly undesirable. Much of the headlines’ percentage required contextual knowledge of events to identify criteria that matched biased or targeted language. The final annotation guidelines paved the way for a theoretical system which uses keyword and hashtag significance to classify major instances of bias. Minor instances with bias undertones or clickbait may require advanced machine learning methods which learn context through scraping user engagements on social media.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.59
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Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
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August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
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ArabicNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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561–566
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.59
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.59
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Yousra El-Ghawi, Abeer Marzouk, and Aya Khamis. 2024. LexiconLadies at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of Facebook News Headlines on the Israel-Palestine 2023 War. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 561–566, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LexiconLadies at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of Facebook News Headlines on the Israel-Palestine 2023 War (El-Ghawi et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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