Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media

Shamik Roy, Dan Goldwasser

Computational Social Science and Social Media Long Paper

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Abstract: In this paper, we suggest a minimally supervised approach for identifying nuanced frames in news article coverage of politically divisive topics. We suggest to break the broad policy frames suggested by Boydstun et al., 2014 into fine-grained subframes which can capture differences in political ideology in a better way. We evaluate the suggested subframes and their embedding, learned using minimal supervision, over three topics, namely, immigration, gun-control, and abortion. We demonstrate the ability of the subframes to capture ideological differences and analyze political discourse in news media.
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