Das generische Maskulinum schleicht zurück

Harnisch, Rüdiger

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“…The automated analysis workflow consists of five components, of which the following three are implemented in the current prototype: an IDF-based component, a combined dictionary-based component, and a component based on semantically created bias dictionary. One of the two components that are not yet implemented will use SVM to analyze historic linguistic cues , such as the pejorative sentiment of the suffix -ling in words like Flüchtling or Schönling [3]. The second component that is not yet implemented relies on network analysis.…”

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An Integrated Approach to Detect Media Bias in German News Articles

Spinde

Hamborg

Gipp

2020

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020

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Media bias may often affect individuals' opinions on reported topics. Many existing methods that aim to identify such bias forms employ individual, specialized techniques and focus only on English texts. We propose to combine the state-of-the-art in order to further improve the performance in bias identification. Our prototype consists of three analysis components to identify media bias words in German news articles. We use an IDF-based component, a component utilizing a topic-dependent bias dictionary created using word embeddings, and an extensive dictionary of German emotional terms compiled from multiple sources. Finally, we discuss two not yet implemented analysis components that use machine learning and network analysis to identify media bias. All dictionary-based analysis components are experimentally extended with the use of general word embeddings. We also show the results of a user study.

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An Integrated Approach to Detect Media Bias in German News Articles

Spinde

Hamborg

Gipp

2020

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020

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“…Sonderling, Schönling or Schwächling. Official discussions, however, lead into the direction that such derivatives should generally be replaced by participle derivative constructions like Geflüchtete [7]. Our literature review yielded that no central collection of such rules or any large scale analysis of their real effects exists.…”

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Media Bias in German News Articles: A Combined Approach

Spinde

Hamborg

Gipp

2020

ECML PKDD 2020 Workshops

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Slanted news coverage, also called media bias, can heavily influence how news consumers interpret and react to the news. Models to identify and describe biases have been proposed across various scientific fields, focusing mostly on English media. In this paper, we propose a method for analyzing media bias in German media. We test different natural language processing techniques and combinations thereof. Specifically, we combine an IDF-based component, a specially created bias lexicon, and a linguistic lexicon. We also flexibly extend our lexica by the usage of word embeddings. We evaluate the system and methods in a survey (N = 46), comparing the bias words our system detected to human annotations. So far, the best component combination results in an F$$_{1}$$ 1 score of 0.31 of words that were identified as biased by our system and our study participants. The low performance shows that the analysis of media bias is still a difficult task, but using fewer resources, we achieved the same performance on the same task than recent research on English. We summarize the next steps in improving the resources and the overall results.

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“…Bülow and Herz (2014), for instance, found that the authors of the reformulated German Road Traffic Act (2013) transformed more than 30 generic masculine forms like Fußgänger ('pedestrians') or Radfahrer ('cyclists') into nominalized participles such as zu Fuß Gehende ('those who go by foot', 'pedestrians') and Rad Fahrende ('those who cycle by bike', 'cyclists') to meet the requirement of gender sensitivity. What is more, Harnisch (2016) found that in many study regulations, generic masculine forms like Studenten ('students') or Dozenten ('lecturers') had been transformed into Genus-neutral nominalized participles like Studierende ('students') and Dozierende ('lecturers') to make the texts gender sensitive. What is even more interesting is that Harnisch (2016), Bülow (n.d.) and (Bülow & Harnisch, 2015) have found that many authors use nominalized participles in the singular (der Studierende (MASK.SG) 'the student').…”

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“…Apparently, authors may not be aware that nominalized participles in the singular are actually Genus-specific rather than Genus-neutral. To give an example from a reformulated study regulation (Harnisch, 2016): Harnisch ( 2016) who began a body of work in the early 1990s and Bülow (forthcoming) who has continued this line of work since 2013 collected more than a hundred cases from different types of texts in which a traditional generic masculine was replaced with another more complex generic masculine nominalized participle in order to comply with the requirements of gender-mainstreaming ideology. This is a proto-example of a process of reanalysis which can be interpreted as exaptation in the evolutionary sense of the word's meaning (Bülow, forthcoming;Bülow & Harnisch, 2015).…”

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3 The Multilingual Brain: Implications for the Future

Csépe

2017

Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics

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Germany). From March 2015 to August 2015 he will also be a visiting researcher in the field of applied linguistics at Groningen University. His research and research interests range from language change theory, evolutionary linguistics, variation and language change, dynamic systems theory, sociolinguistics, genderlinguistics, textual linguistics, stylistics, forensic linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, morphology, and language learning theory. Lars' doctoral thesis is on Language dynamic in the light of evolutionary theory: towards an integrative model of language change.Valéria Csépe is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience. She is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea, and is head of the research group of Neurocognitive Development at the Brain Imaging Centre of the Research Centre of Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Valéria's research focuses on topics such as higher order auditory processes (speech and music), and the dynamics of domain-specific (reading, language processing, visual cognition) and domaingeneral (executive functions) subsystems of cognition. Behavioural measures and methods of neuroscience (electrophysiology and neuroimaging) are used in combination to study these processes. Valéria has been acting for two terms (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) as Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the first female elected to a high position in the Academy's history. She has been and is a member of numerous scientific societies and organizations as well as a member of the editorial boards of international and Hungarian scientific journals. Valéria has been decorated with many awards for outstanding scientific achievement. She is member of the International xii Future Research Direc t ions for Applied Linguist ics 3434_FM.indd 12 9/21/2016 8:49:52 PM Gyöngyi Fábián is a language teacher, lecturer and teacher trainer specializing in teaching English and Hungarian languages. She has worked as a materials writer and curriculum and materials developer with several national and international projects. She has a PhD degree in educational studies, and currently works as Associate Professor in the Institute of Hungarian and Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Hungary. Gyöngyi is also working as a materials developer for the State Language Examination Center Pannon. Besides teaching EFL, her teaching experience covers both general education courses and specialized courses for language teachers and school leaders in a variety of areas. Gyöngyi has written several course books. As a researcher, her special interests include general and language teachers' roles, behaviour and thinking in Hungary. Rüdiger Harnisch holds the Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Passau (Germany). Before that he was Assistant Professor at the University of Bayreuth, Researcher at the Center of General Linguistics (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Berlin, and Professor at the U...

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Das generische Maskulinum schleicht zurück

Cited by 9 publications

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An Integrated Approach to Detect Media Bias in German News Articles

An Integrated Approach to Detect Media Bias in German News Articles

Media Bias in German News Articles: A Combined Approach

3 The Multilingual Brain: Implications for the Future

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