Hotpoliticslab September 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 1/10
by Maaike Homan 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (1st of October) we have another lab meeting from 15:00 till 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) will give a talk titled "Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253 at 3pm (CET). Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. And if you missed any of the meetings, you can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs archive<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. See you Friday! Best, Maaike 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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Hot Politics Lab 24/9
by Maaike Homan 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (24/9) from 15:00 – 16:00 it is “Graduate Friday”. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Paul Stroet (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled “Predicting Personality Scores from Parliamentary Speeches”. After that, Dani Komáromy (University of Amsterdam) will talk about “Designing a Greentervention - Can populist Appeals Spur Environmental Collective Action?”. The two talks 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs archive<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>. 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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Hot Politics Lab 17/9
by Maaike Homan 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi everyone, Hopefully you enjoyed the summer! The Hot Politics lab meetings are back again! Our first session will be this Friday (17/9) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot (Sapienza University of Rome) and David Abadi (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Computational approaches on modeling political rhetoric: basic emotions, media bias, metaphor, social identity and populist attitudes". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253 at 3pm (CET). Below some information about the speakers. Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot<https://littlepea13.github.io/> is a PhD candidate at the Computer Engineering Department (Sapienza NLP group), Sapienza University of Rome, where he is supervised by Roberto Navigli. He is an MSc-graduate of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. His research interests encompass deep learning, knowledge graphs, natural language processing (NLP), multilingual NLP models and multi-task learning (MTL). David Abadi<https://aice.uva.nl/members/members.html#David-Abadi> is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE), Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam. His research interests across (computational) social science encompass social identity, affective science (basic emotions and appraisal theory), conspiracy beliefs, threat (terror management theory), political psychology (extremism and populism) as well as perspective-taking and empathy in online-communication. Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. Below an overview of the upcoming talks of the coming weeks: * 24/9: Paul Stroet (graduate student) talking about "Predicting Personality Scores from Parliamentary Speeches" * 1/10: Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) about "Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?" * 8/10: Hugo Mercier (CNRS) about "Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think" * 15/10: Christopher Lucas (Washington University) talking about "More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters' Affect and Evaluation" Looking forward to "seeing" you all again! 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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