Fine-Grained Detection of Solidarity for Women and Migrants in 155 Years of German Parliamentary Debates

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Hauptverfasser: Kostikova, Aida, Paassen, Benjamin, Beese, Dominik, Pütz, Ole, Wiedemann, Gregor, Eger, Steffen
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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author Kostikova, Aida
Paassen, Benjamin
Beese, Dominik
Pütz, Ole
Wiedemann, Gregor
Eger, Steffen
author_facet Kostikova, Aida
Paassen, Benjamin
Beese, Dominik
Pütz, Ole
Wiedemann, Gregor
Eger, Steffen
contents Solidarity is a crucial concept to understand social relations in societies. In this paper, we explore fine-grained solidarity frames to study solidarity towards women and migrants in German parliamentary debates between 1867 and 2022. Using 2,864 manually annotated text snippets (with a cost exceeding 18k Euro), we evaluate large language models (LLMs) like Llama 3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4. We find that GPT-4 outperforms other LLMs, approaching human annotation quality. Using GPT-4, we automatically annotate more than 18k further instances (with a cost of around 500 Euro) across 155 years and find that solidarity with migrants outweighs anti-solidarity but that frequencies and solidarity types shift over time. Most importantly, group-based notions of (anti-)solidarity fade in favor of compassionate solidarity, focusing on the vulnerability of migrant groups, and exchange-based anti-solidarity, focusing on the lack of (economic) contribution. Our study highlights the interplay of historical events, socio-economic needs, and political ideologies in shaping migration discourse and social cohesion. We also show that powerful LLMs, if carefully prompted, can be cost-effective alternatives to human annotation for hard social scientific tasks.
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spellingShingle Fine-Grained Detection of Solidarity for Women and Migrants in 155 Years of German Parliamentary Debates
Kostikova, Aida
Paassen, Benjamin
Beese, Dominik
Pütz, Ole
Wiedemann, Gregor
Eger, Steffen
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Solidarity is a crucial concept to understand social relations in societies. In this paper, we explore fine-grained solidarity frames to study solidarity towards women and migrants in German parliamentary debates between 1867 and 2022. Using 2,864 manually annotated text snippets (with a cost exceeding 18k Euro), we evaluate large language models (LLMs) like Llama 3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4. We find that GPT-4 outperforms other LLMs, approaching human annotation quality. Using GPT-4, we automatically annotate more than 18k further instances (with a cost of around 500 Euro) across 155 years and find that solidarity with migrants outweighs anti-solidarity but that frequencies and solidarity types shift over time. Most importantly, group-based notions of (anti-)solidarity fade in favor of compassionate solidarity, focusing on the vulnerability of migrant groups, and exchange-based anti-solidarity, focusing on the lack of (economic) contribution. Our study highlights the interplay of historical events, socio-economic needs, and political ideologies in shaping migration discourse and social cohesion. We also show that powerful LLMs, if carefully prompted, can be cost-effective alternatives to human annotation for hard social scientific tasks.
title Fine-Grained Detection of Solidarity for Women and Migrants in 155 Years of German Parliamentary Debates
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04359