用细粒度叙事框架分析播客,揭示话语背后的说服逻辑
Listening Between the Lines: Decoding Podcast Narratives with Language Modeling
- 将叙事框架与具体提及实体关联,提升对口语化内容的理解精度
- 发现话题与呈现方式存在系统性关联,可揭示媒体影响力机制
- 适合研究数字媒体传播、舆论演化或对话式内容分析的学者
播客已成为塑造公众意见的核心场域,是理解当代话语的重要来源。其通常无脚本、多主题、对话式的特点带来了丰富但复杂的数据。要分析播客如何说服与传递信息,需考察其叙事结构——尤其是所采用的叙事框架。然而,播客的流动性和对话性给自动化分析带来挑战。我们发现,现有大语言模型(如基于新闻文章训练的)难以捕捉人类听众识别叙事框架所依赖的细微线索,导致当前方法在大规模分析播客叙事时表现不足。为此,我们开发并评估了一个微调后的BERT模型,该模型将叙事框架显式关联到对话中提及的具体实体,从而将抽象框架落地为具体细节。随后,通过将细粒度框架标签与高层级话题相关联,揭示更广泛的论述趋势。本文主要贡献:(i) 提出一种更贴近人类判断的框架标注方法,适用于杂乱、对话式数据;(ii) 揭示话题与呈现方式之间的系统性关系,为研究数字媒体影响提供更稳健的框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Podcasts have become a central arena for shaping public opinion, making them a vital source for understanding contemporary discourse. Their typically unscripted, multi-themed, and conversational style offers a rich but complex form of data. To analyze how podcasts persuade and inform, we must examine their narrative structures -- specifically, the narrative frames they employ. The fluid and conversational nature of podcasts presents a significant challenge for automated analysis. We show that existing large language models, typically trained on more structured text such as news articles, struggle to capture the subtle cues that human listeners rely on to identify narrative frames. As a result, current approaches fall short of accurately analyzing podcast narratives at scale. To solve this, we develop and evaluate a fine-tuned BERT model that explicitly links narrative frames to specific entities mentioned in the conversation, effectively grounding the abstract frame in concrete details. Our approach then uses these granular frame labels and correlates them with high-level topics to reveal broader discourse trends. The primary contributions of this paper are: (i) a novel frame-labeling methodology that more closely aligns with human judgment for messy, conversational data, and (ii) a new analysis that uncovers the systematic relationship between what is being discussed (the topic) and how it is being presented (the frame), offering a more robust framework for studying influence in digital media.
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