FrameAxis: Characterizing microframe bias and intensity with word embedding

• Main Authors: KWAK, Haewoon, AN, Jisun, JING, Elise Jing, AHN, Yong-Yeol
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Framing; Media bias; Microframe; SemAxis; Word embedding; Antonyms; Semantic Axis; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6300; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7303/viewcontent/peerj_cs_644_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Framing is a process of emphasizing a certain aspect of an issue over the others, nudging readers or listeners towards different positions on the issue even without making a biased argument. Here, we propose FrameAxis, a method for characterizing documents by identifying the most relevant semantic a...