Developing a Natural Language Understanding Model to Characterize Cable News Bias
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The increasing trend of political polarization in the U.S. is reflected in media consumption patterns that indicate partisan polarization.
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The increasing trend of political polarization in the U.S. is reflected in media consumption patterns that indicate partisan polarization. We develop an unsupervised machine learning method to characterize the bias of cable news programs without any human input. This method relies on the analysis of what topics are mentioned through Named Entity Recognition and how those topics are discussed through Stance Analysis.
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