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Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia

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 نشر من قبل Chan Young Park
 تاريخ النشر 2020
  مجال البحث الهندسة المعلوماتية
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Specific lexical choices in narrative text reflect both the writers attitudes towards people in the narrative and influence the audiences reactions. Prior work has examined descriptions of people in English using contextual affective analysis, a natural language processing (NLP) technique that seeks to analyze how people are portrayed along dimensions of power, agency, and sentiment. Our work presents an extension of this methodology to multilingual settings, which is enabled by a new corpus that we collect and a new multilingual model. We additionally show how word connotations differ across languages and cultures, highlighting the difficulty of generalizing existing English datasets and methods. We then demonstrate the usefulness of our method by analyzing Wikipedia biography pages of members of the LGBT community across three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Our results show systematic differences in how the LGBT community is portrayed across languages, surfacing cultural differences in narratives and signs of social biases. Practically, this model can be used to identify Wikipedia articles for further manual analysis -- articles that might contain content gaps or an imbalanced representation of particular social groups.



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