A COVID-19 news coverage mood map of Europe

Frankie Robertson, Jarkko Lagus, Kaisla Kajava


Abstract
We present a COVID-19 news dashboard which visualizes sentiment in pandemic news coverage in different languages across Europe. The dashboard shows analyses for positive/neutral/negative sentiment and moral sentiment for news articles across countries and languages. First we extract news articles from news-crawl. Then we use a pre-trained multilingual BERT model for sentiment analysis of news article headlines and a dictionary and word vectors -based method for moral sentiment analysis of news articles. The resulting dashboard gives a unified overview of news events on COVID-19 news overall sentiment, and the region and language of publication from the period starting from the beginning of January 2020 to the end of January 2021.
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2021.hackashop-1.15
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Proceedings of the EACL Hackashop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation
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April
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2021
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Online
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Hannu Toivonen, Michele Boggia
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Hackashop
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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110–115
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Frankie Robertson, Jarkko Lagus, and Kaisla Kajava. 2021. A COVID-19 news coverage mood map of Europe. In Proceedings of the EACL Hackashop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation, pages 110–115, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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