通过全局媒体关系图分析,提升新闻媒体偏见与真实性的预测能力
MGM: Global Understanding of Audience Overlap Graphs for Predicting the Factuality and the Bias of News Media
- 基于变分EM框架,融合全局相似节点的结构与标签信息
- 在多个数据集上超越现有方法,准确率提升3.2%-5.7%
- 适合从事媒体分析、信息可信度评估的研究者使用
在数字数据迅猛增长的时代,评估新闻媒体的政治偏见和事实性对获取可靠信息至关重要。本文研究从政治偏见和事实性角度对新闻媒体进行分类的问题。传统方法如预训练语言模型(PLMs)和图神经网络(GNNs)虽表现良好,但存在局限:PLMs仅关注文本特征,忽略实体间复杂关系;而GNNs在包含孤立组件且标签稀疏的媒体图中表现不佳。为此,我们提出MediaGraphMind(MGM),一种基于变分期望-最大化(EM)框架的解决方案。MGM不依赖局部邻居节点,而是利用全局相似节点的特征、结构模式和标签信息,使GNN能捕捉长距离依赖以学习丰富节点表示,并通过引入结构信息增强PLMs性能。大量实验表明该框架有效,达到新的最先进水平。此外,我们公开了包含数据集、代码和文档的仓库。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the current era of rapidly growing digital data, evaluating the political bias and factuality of news outlets has become more important for seeking reliable information online. In this work, we study the classification problem of profiling news media from the lens of political bias and factuality. Traditional profiling methods, such as Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising results, but they face notable challenges. PLMs focus solely on textual features, causing them to overlook the complex relationships between entities, while GNNs often struggle with media graphs containing disconnected components and insufficient labels. To address these limitations, we propose MediaGraphMind (MGM), an effective solution within a variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) framework. Instead of relying on limited neighboring nodes, MGM leverages features, structural patterns, and label information from globally similar nodes. Such a framework not only enables GNNs to capture long-range dependencies for learning expressive node representations but also enhances PLMs by integrating structural information and therefore improving the performance of both models. The extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework and achieve new state-of-the-art results. Further, we share our repository1 which contains the dataset, code, and documentation
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