BiasGanda at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage

Al Manar Al Wardi, Blqees Al Busaidi, Malath Al-Sibani, Hiba Salim Muhammad Al-Siyabi, Najma Al Zidjaly


Abstract
In this study, we aimed to identify biased language in a dataset provided by the FIGNEWS 2024 committee on the Gaza-Israel war. We classified entries into seven categories: Unbiased, Biased against Palestine, Biased against Israel, Biased against Others, Biased against both Palestine and Israel, Unclear, and Not Applicable. Our team reviewed the literature to develop a codebook of terminologies and definitions. By coding each example, we sought to detect language tendencies used by media outlets when reporting on the same event. The primary finding was that most examples were classified as “Biased against Palestine,” as all examined language data used one-sided terms to describe the October 7 event. The least used category was “Not Applicable,” reserved for irrelevant examples or those lacking context. It is recommended to use neutral and balanced language when reporting volatile political news.
Anthology ID:
2024.arabicnlp-1.65
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
August
Year:
2024
Address:
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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609–613
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.65
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.65
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Al Manar Al Wardi, Blqees Al Busaidi, Malath Al-Sibani, Hiba Salim Muhammad Al-Siyabi, and Najma Al Zidjaly. 2024. BiasGanda at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 609–613, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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BiasGanda at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage (Al Wardi et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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