Hotpoliticslab December 2021

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Reddit dataset RoBERTa (populism and emotions) computational linguistics
by David Abadi 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, Herewith, I’d like to share some news with researchers interested in populism, emotions, framing, media bias and social identity. Last year, Agneta Fischer and I collaborated with colleagues from Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at UvA (Pere-Lluís Huguet-Cabot, Verna Dankers, Ekaterina Shutova), and recently we published two papers in the field of computational linguistics (as listed below). For our latest paper, we developed a novel deep learning NLP model based on RoBERTa (Liu, 2019) to detect populist attitudes, media bias, emotions and social identity. In the near future, our dataset (consisting of 6861 annotated Reddit comments) will be made publicly available through GitHub for the research community to be used. Huguet Cabot, P. L. H., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2021, January). Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Populist Attitudes, News Bias and Emotions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11956. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11956 Huguet Cabot, P. L., Dankers, V., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2020, November). The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political Discourse. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (pp. 4479-4488). http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.402 Feel free to contact me with any questions. David (also on behalf of my co-authors) David Abadi (Ph.D.) Postdoctoral Researcher Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE)<https://aice.uva.nl/members/members.html#anker-david-abadi> DEMOS - Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (H2020-EU.3.6.1.1., H2020-EU.3.6.1.2.)<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219150/factsheet/en> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_UlNbPAAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…>

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Hot Politics Lab 10/12
by Maaike Homan 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (December 10) from 15:00 - 16:00 will be the last Hot Politics Lab meeting of 2021. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Frederic Hopp (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Dissociable moral brain networks modulate the processing of political messages". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). We already have an exciting program of speakers lined up for the next semester. See a couple of examples below. The full program can be found at the Hot Politics website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. * 28 January - Israel Waismel Manor (University of Haifa): >From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it * 4 February - Christel van Eck (ASCoR, UvA): Conceptualizing 'Online Climate Change Polarization' * 18 February - Chiara Vialli (University of Bern): Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives * 4 March - Matthijs Rooduijn (UvA): Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people Furthermore, for those interested (or know students that might be interested), Stony Brook University is offering a one-year Political Science MA with a focus on Political Psychology. The program includes small courses taught by full-time faculty focus on the psychology of public opinion, attitude change, persuasion, mobilization, and political behavior. More information can be found here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/MApoliticalscience/index.php. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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