NewB: 200,000+ Sentences for Political Bias Detection

06/04/2020
by   Jerry Wei, et al.
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We present the Newspaper Bias Dataset (NewB), a text corpus of more than 200,000 sentences from eleven news sources regarding Donald Trump. While previous datasets have labeled sentences as either liberal or conservative, NewB covers the political views of eleven popular media sources, capturing more nuanced political viewpoints than a traditional binary classification system does. We train two state-of-the-art deep learning models to predict the news source of a given sentence from eleven newspapers and find that a recurrent neural network achieved top-1, top-3, and top-5 accuracies of 33.3 77.6 model's accuracies of 18.3 sentences, we analyze the top n-grams with our model to gain meaningful insight into the portrayal of Trump by media sources.We hope that the public release of our dataset will encourage further research in using natural language processing to analyze more complex political biases. Our dataset is posted at https://github.com/JerryWei03/NewB .

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