MOKA: Moral Knowledge Augmentation for Moral Event Extraction

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xinliang Frederick, Wu, Winston, Beauchamp, Nick, Wang, Lu
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Published: 2023
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author Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wu, Winston
Beauchamp, Nick
Wang, Lu
author_facet Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wu, Winston
Beauchamp, Nick
Wang, Lu
contents News media often strive to minimize explicit moral language in news articles, yet most articles are dense with moral values as expressed through the reported events themselves. However, values that are reflected in the intricate dynamics among participating entities and moral events are far more challenging for most NLP systems to detect, including LLMs. To study this phenomenon, we annotate a new dataset, MORAL EVENTS, consisting of 5,494 structured event annotations on 474 news articles by diverse US media across the political spectrum. We further propose MOKA, a moral event extraction framework with MOral Knowledge Augmentation, which leverages knowledge derived from moral words and moral scenarios to produce structural representations of morality-bearing events. Experiments show that MOKA outperforms competitive baselines across three moral event understanding tasks. Further analysis shows even ostensibly nonpartisan media engage in the selective reporting of moral events. Our data and codebase are available at https://github.com/launchnlp/MOKA.
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spellingShingle MOKA: Moral Knowledge Augmentation for Moral Event Extraction
Zhang, Xinliang Frederick
Wu, Winston
Beauchamp, Nick
Wang, Lu
Computation and Language
News media often strive to minimize explicit moral language in news articles, yet most articles are dense with moral values as expressed through the reported events themselves. However, values that are reflected in the intricate dynamics among participating entities and moral events are far more challenging for most NLP systems to detect, including LLMs. To study this phenomenon, we annotate a new dataset, MORAL EVENTS, consisting of 5,494 structured event annotations on 474 news articles by diverse US media across the political spectrum. We further propose MOKA, a moral event extraction framework with MOral Knowledge Augmentation, which leverages knowledge derived from moral words and moral scenarios to produce structural representations of morality-bearing events. Experiments show that MOKA outperforms competitive baselines across three moral event understanding tasks. Further analysis shows even ostensibly nonpartisan media engage in the selective reporting of moral events. Our data and codebase are available at https://github.com/launchnlp/MOKA.
title MOKA: Moral Knowledge Augmentation for Moral Event Extraction
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09733