News is More than a Collection of Facts: Moral Frame Preserving News Summarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00657v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:08:24 GMT
• Title: News is More than a Collection of Facts: Moral Frame Preserving News Summarization
• Authors: Enrico Liscio, Michela Lorandi, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah,
• Abstract summary: We study the preservation of moral framing in AI-generated news summaries.<n>We propose an approach that leverages the intuition that journalists intentionally use or report specific moral-laden words.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: News articles are more than collections of facts; they reflect journalists' framing, shaping how events are presented to the audience. One key aspect of framing is the choice to write in (or quote verbatim) morally charged language as opposed to using neutral terms. This moral framing carries implicit judgments that automated news summarizers should recognize and preserve to maintain the original intent of the writer. In this work, we perform the first study on the preservation of moral framing in AI-generated news summaries. We propose an approach that leverages the intuition that journalists intentionally use or report specific moral-laden words, which should be retained in summaries. Through automated, crowd-sourced, and expert evaluations, we demonstrate that our approach enhances the preservation of moral framing while maintaining overall summary quality.

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