Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings

Gili Goldin; Ella Rabinovich; Shuly Wintner

doi:10.1162/coli.a.600

Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings

Gili Goldin, Ella Rabinovich, Shuly Wintner

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Recent years have seen an increase in polarized discourse worldwide, on various platforms. We propose a novel method for quantifying polarization, based on the emotional style of the discourse rather than on differences in ideological stands. Using measures of Valence, Arousal, and Dominance, we detect signals of emotional discourse and use them to operationalize the concept of affective polarization. Applying this method to a recently released corpus of proceedings of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament (in Hebrew), we find that the emotional style of members of government differs from that of opposition members; and that the level of affective polarization, as reflected by this style, is significantly increasing with time.

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[Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl-3.5/) (Goldin et al., CL 2026)

Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings (Goldin et al., CL 2026)

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Gili Goldin, Ella Rabinovich, and Shuly Wintner. 2026. Unveiling Affective Polarization Trends in Parliamentary Proceedings. Computational Linguistics, 52(3):1051–1083.