Hotpoliticslab May 2023

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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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Talk by Chris Wlezien & Dutch Political Psychology Meeting this week
by Maaike Homan 09 May '23

09 May '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab Followers, The next Hot Politics Lab meeting will be June 2nd (see program here<https://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/>). Until that time, there are two other interesting events happening this week. There is a talk by Chris Wlezien on Thursday (May 11th) and the Dutch Political Psychology Meeting is on Friday (May 12th), see the details below. Talk by Chris Wlezien Thursday May 11th Dear colleagues, Next week Thursday (May 11) Chris Wlezien will give a talk titled "Media Reflect! The Public, Policy, and the News" (16:00-17:00 REC B2.01). He will assess the relationships between public opinion, public policy, and news production. Christopher Wlezien is currently Hogg Professor of Government at the University of Texas, and one of the leading lights in the field of representation and the analysis of media, public opinion and public policy data. For more info see his website: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/cw26629 There will be drinks and a dinner afterwards. Please let Gijs Schumacher (g.schumacher(a)uva.nl<mailto:g.schumacher@uva.nl>) know if you want to join the dinner. Dutch Political Psychology Meeting The next Dutch Political Psychology Meeting will take this Friday May 12th from 10:30 - 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus). See the program and all the details below. Note that the meeting is only in person and cannot be attended online. Location: We will host the event at the University of Amsterdam, in room C10.20. This room is in the C building at the Roeterseiland campus. Here is a map with all the buildings of the campus. If you have any trouble finding the room you can email m.d.homan(a)uva.nl. Lunch: Lunch is unfortunately not included. You can bring your own lunch or go to the cafeteria or other places around the campus. Program: 10:30 - 10:45: Introduction round 10:45 - 11:25 Daan Scheepers: Social change as challenge and threat: A social psychophysiological approach 11:25 - 12:05 Chantal D'Amore: Perceived polarization amplifies attitude moralization in response to partisan news: A four-wave longitudinal study around the 2020 US election campaign 12:05 - 13:05: Lunch 13:05 - 13:45 Leticia Micheli: In pursuit of racial equality: identifying the determinants of support for the Black Lives Matter movement 13:45 - 14:25 Frank Gootjes: Societal discontent as a catalyst for action: how a negative sentiment about society at large fuels political action 14:25 - 14:40: Coffee break 14:40 - 15:20 Flavio Azevedo: Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations 15:20 - 16:00 Kevin Koonings: An era of conspiracies and the great reset of democracy We are looking forward this Friday! Best, Maaike Homan Chantal D'Amore Bert Bakker Ruthie Pliskin 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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