arXiv:2411.00702cs.CLcs.CY2024-11被引 4

用图模型从政治文本中提取叙事信号,揭示隐含的政治话语结构。

Extracting narrative signals from public discourse: a network-based approach

  • 基于抽象语义表示构建句子意义图,识别叙事核心元素。
  • 通过启发式规则筛选出角色、事件与视角化痕迹,形成可分析的叙事信号。
  • 适合研究政治极化、虚假信息等议题的学者,支持远读与精读结合。

叙事是人类理解政治现实的关键解释工具。随着叙事在极化与虚假信息等社会议题中的重要性日益凸显,对其开展实证分析的需求也不断增长。本文提出一种基于图结构的形式化方法与机器辅助流程,从数字文本语料中提取、表征并分析特定叙事信号,依托抽象语义表示(AMR)。该方法专为分析来自档案政治演讲、社交媒体、议会辩论记录及政党网站政纲等数字媒体中的政治叙事而设计。将叙事研究视为信息检索问题:首先利用AMR对语料中每句话生成图式语义表示;继而基于叙述学中的可迁移概念,应用一组启发式规则过滤出三类核心信号——1)角色及其关系,2)角色参与的事件,3)事件的视角化痕迹。这些信号被视为指向更大政治叙事的关键线索。通过系统分析并重组这些信号为网络结构,引导研究者定位文本相关部分,结合远读与精读实现叙事重构。以2010至2023年欧盟国情咨文为例,验证了该形式化方法能有效归纳公共话语中的政治叙事信号。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Narratives are key interpretative devices by which humans make sense of political reality. As the significance of narratives for understanding current societal issues such as polarization and misinformation becomes increasingly evident, there is a growing demand for methods that support their empirical analysis. To this end, we propose a graph-based formalism and machine-guided method for extracting, representing, and analyzing selected narrative signals from digital textual corpora, based on Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). The formalism and method introduced here specifically cater to the study of political narratives that figure in texts from digital media such as archived political speeches, social media posts, transcripts of parliamentary debates, and political manifestos on party websites. We approach the study of such political narratives as a problem of information retrieval: starting from a textual corpus, we first extract a graph-like representation of the meaning of each sentence in the corpus using AMR. Drawing on transferable concepts from narratology, we then apply a set of heuristics to filter these graphs for representations of 1) actors and their relationships, 2) the events in which these actors figure, and 3) traces of the perspectivization of these events. We approach these references to actors, events, and instances of perspectivization as core narrative signals that allude to larger political narratives. By systematically analyzing and re-assembling these signals into networks that guide the researcher to the relevant parts of the text, the underlying narratives can be reconstructed through a combination of distant and close reading. A case study of State of the European Union addresses (2010 -- 2023) demonstrates how the formalism can be used to inductively surface signals of political narratives from public discourse.

叙事分析语义图政治话语AMR

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