Towards Detecting Media Bias by Utilizing User Comments

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Yigit-Sert S., ALTINGÖVDE İ. S., ULUSOY Ö.

8th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), Hannover, Germany, 22 - 25 May 2016, pp.374-375 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1145/2908131.2908186
  • City: Hannover
  • Country: Germany
  • Page Numbers: pp.374-375
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Automatic detection of media bias is an important and challenging problem. We propose to leverage user comments along with the content of the online news articles to automatically identify the latent aspects of a given news topic, as a first step of detecting the news resources that are biased towards a particular subset of such aspects.