2024/12/16 by Tim Menzner, Menzner, Tim, Jochen L. Leidner +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection #Media Influence and Politics #Misinformation and Its Impacts
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.11835
openalex publication_date 2024/12/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present improved models for the granular detection and sub-classification news media bias in English news articles. We compare the performance of zero-shot versus fine-tuned large pre-trained neural transformer language models, explore how the level of detail of the classes affects performance on a novel taxonomy of 27 news bias-types, and demonstrate how using synthetically generated example data can be used to improve quality