The Guidelines Specialists at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach

Ghizlane Bourahouat, Samar Amer


Abstract
This article presents the participation of “The Guideline Specialists” in the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task, which aims to unravel bias and propaganda in news media narratives surrounding the Gaza-Israel 2023-2024 war. Leveraging innovative annotation methodologies and drawing on a diverse team of annotators, our approach focuses on meticulously annotating news articles using a linguistic approach to uncover the intricate nuances of bias. By incorporating detailed examples and drawing on related work that show how language structure represented in the use of passive voice or the use of nominalization and the choice of vocabulary carry bias, our findings provide valuable insights into the representation of the Gaza-Israel conflict across various languages and cultures. The guideline we developed detected the bias against Gaza, against Israel and others by setting keywords that are based on linguistic background tested by the AntConc concordance tool. The result was an annotation guideline that have a solid base. Through this collaborative effort, we developed a guideline that contributes to fostering a deeper understanding of media narratives during one of the most critical moments in recent history.
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2024.arabicnlp-1.73
Volume:
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Month:
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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672–676
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.73
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.73
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Ghizlane Bourahouat and Samar Amer. 2024. The Guidelines Specialists at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 672–676, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The Guidelines Specialists at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach (Bourahouat & Amer, ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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