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الكشف عن الموقف في مقالات الأخبار الألمانية
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يشكل الاستخدام الواسع للإنترنت والنشر السريع للمعلومات التحدي المتمثل في تحديد صحة محتواه. اكتشف الكشف عن الموقف، الذي تعد مهمة التنبؤ بموقف نص فيما يتعلق بهدف محدد (سؤال المطالبة أو النقاش)، لتحديد صحة المعلومات في مهام مثل تصنيف الشائعات والكشف عن الأخبار المزيفة. في حين أن معظم الأعمال ومجموعات البيانات المتاحة للكشف عن الموقف يعالج النصوص القصيرة مقتطفات مستخرجة من الحوارات النصية، أو منصات وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، أو عناوين الأخبار مع التركيز القوي على اللغة الإنجليزية، فهناك نقص في الموارد المستهدفة للنصوص الطويلة بلغات أخرى. مساهمتنا في هذه الورقة هي ذات شقين. أولا، نقدم مجموعة بيانات ألمانية من أسئلة النقاش والمقالات الإخبارية التي يتم تفاحها يدويا للكشف عن الموقف والعاطفة. ثانيا، نستفيد من مجموعة البيانات لمعالجة المهمة الخاضعة للإشراف على تصنيف موقف مقال إخباري فيما يتعلق بمسألة النقاش وتوفير نماذج خط الأساس كمرجع للعمل في المستقبل بشأن اكتشاف الموقف في المقالات الإخبارية الألمانية.
The widespread use of the Internet and the rapid dissemination of information poses the challenge of identifying the veracity of its content. Stance detection, which is the task of predicting the position of a text in regard to a specific target (e.g. claim or debate question), has been used to determine the veracity of information in tasks such as rumor classification and fake news detection. While most of the work and available datasets for stance detection address short texts snippets extracted from textual dialogues, social media platforms, or news headlines with a strong focus on the English language, there is a lack of resources targeting long texts in other languages. Our contribution in this paper is twofold. First, we present a German dataset of debate questions and news articles that is manually annotated for stance and emotion detection. Second, we leverage the dataset to tackle the supervised task of classifying the stance of a news article with regards to a debate question and provide baseline models as a reference for future work on stance detection in German news articles.
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