Multilingual Coarse Political Stance Classification of Media: Acknowledgments and References

Table of Links

• Abstract and Intro
• Corpora Compilation
• Political Stance Classification
• Summary and Conclusions
• Limitations and Ethics Statement
• Acknowledgments and References
• A. Newspapers in OSCAR 22.01
• B. Topics
• C. Distribution of Topics per Newspaper
• D. Subjects for the ChatGPT and Bard Article Generation
• E. Stance Classification at Article Level
• F. Training Details

Acknowledgments

The author thanks the anonymous reviewers for insightful comments and discussion. Eran dos ifs.

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