Shedding (a thousand points of) light on biased language

  • Authors:
  • Tae Yano;Philip Resnik;Noah A. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • CSLDAMT '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper considers the linguistic indicators of bias in political text. We used Amazon Mechanical Turk judgments about sentences from American political blogs, asking annotators to indicate whether a sentence showed bias, and if so, in which political direction and through which word tokens. We also asked annotators questions about their own political views. We conducted a preliminary analysis of the data, exploring how different groups perceive bias in different blogs, and showing some lexical indicators strongly associated with perceived bias.