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It would be interesting to connect something like this to different News outlets and conduct a sentiment analysis to determine objective bias.
by blackflame7000 8y ago
It would be interesting to connect something like this to different News outlets and conduct a sentiment analysis to determine objective bias.
- pmyteh 8y agoIt would, though it'd be a tricky research design to pull off well: too many moving parts (it turns out to be difficult even to partition video by speaker automatically, let alone everything else). On a more conceptual note, sentiment analysis detects (linguistic markers of) sentiment, not bias. Pretty much every news source will have positive sentiment for heartwarming human interest stories, and negative sentiment about atrocities. That's as you'd expect; we don't produce or consume news in a vacuum.
- blackflame7000 8y agoI'm thinking you could compile a list of commonly used words in positive or negative articles and count their frequency as a starting point. Also, you could search for nouns of importance like Trump or Obama and hone your bias detection.