B3 Non-refereed conference proceedings
A COVID-19 news coverage mood map of Europe (2021)
Robertson, F., Lagus, J., & Kajava, K. (2021). A COVID-19 news coverage mood map of Europe. In H. Toivonen, & M. Boggia (Eds.), Proceedings of the EACL Hackashop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation (pp. 110-115). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.hackashop-1.15/
JYU authors or editors
Publication details
All authors or editors: Robertson, Frankie; Lagus, Jarkko; Kajava, Kaisla
Parent publication: Proceedings of the EACL Hackashop on News Media Content Analysis and Automated Report Generation
Parent publication editors: Toivonen, Hannu; Boggia, Michele
Place and date of conference: Online
eISBN: 978-1-954085-13-8
Publication year: 2021
Pages range: 110-115
Number of pages in the book: 139
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of Publication: Stroudsburg, PA
Publication country: United States
Publication language: English
Persistent website address: https://aclanthology.org/2021.hackashop-1.15/
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/77661
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.
Keywords: text mining; news; news reportage; mood; pandemics; COVID-19; international comparison
Contributing organizations
Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2021
