Detecting Media Bias in News Articles using Gaussian Bias Distributions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10649v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:20:49 GMT
• Title: Detecting Media Bias in News Articles using Gaussian Bias Distributions
• Authors: Wei-Fan Chen, Khalid Al-Khatib, Benno Stein and Henning Wachsmuth
• Abstract summary: We study how second-order information about biased statements in an article helps to improve detection effectiveness. On an existing media bias dataset, we find that the frequency and positions of biased statements strongly impact article-level bias. Using a standard model for sentence-level bias detection, we provide empirical evidence that article-level bias detectors that use second-order information clearly outperform those without.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Media plays an important role in shaping public opinion. Biased media can influence people in undesirable directions and hence should be unmasked as such. We observe that featurebased and neural text classification approaches which rely only on the distribution of low-level lexical information fail to detect media bias. This weakness becomes most noticeable for articles on new events, where words appear in new contexts and hence their "bias predictiveness" is unclear. In this paper, we therefore study how second-order information about biased statements in an article helps to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, we utilize the probability distributions of the frequency, positions, and sequential order of lexical and informational sentence-level bias in a Gaussian Mixture Model. On an existing media bias dataset, we find that the frequency and positions of biased statements strongly impact article-level bias, whereas their exact sequential order is secondary. Using a standard model for sentence-level bias detection, we provide empirical evidence that article-level bias detectors that use second-order information clearly outperform those without.

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