Entity Framing and Role Portrayal in the News
This provides a valuable resource for researchers in news analysis and computational linguistics, though it is incremental as it builds on existing framing and annotation work.
The authors tackled the problem of analyzing entity framing and role portrayal in news by introducing a novel multilingual hierarchical corpus annotated with 22 fine-grained roles across 1,378 articles in five languages, focusing on the Ukraine-Russia War and Climate Change, with over 5,800 entity mentions labeled and evaluation results reported on state-of-the-art models.
We introduce a novel multilingual hierarchical corpus annotated for entity framing and role portrayal in news articles. The dataset uses a unique taxonomy inspired by storytelling elements, comprising 22 fine-grained roles, or archetypes, nested within three main categories: protagonist, antagonist, and innocent. Each archetype is carefully defined, capturing nuanced portrayals of entities such as guardian, martyr, and underdog for protagonists; tyrant, deceiver, and bigot for antagonists; and victim, scapegoat, and exploited for innocents. The dataset includes 1,378 recent news articles in five languages (Bulgarian, English, Hindi, European Portuguese, and Russian) focusing on two critical domains of global significance: the Ukraine-Russia War and Climate Change. Over 5,800 entity mentions have been annotated with role labels. This dataset serves as a valuable resource for research into role portrayal and has broader implications for news analysis. We describe the characteristics of the dataset and the annotation process, and we report evaluation results on fine-tuned state-of-the-art multilingual transformers and hierarchical zero-shot learning using LLMs at the level of a document, a paragraph, and a sentence.