A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media
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| author | Caporusso, Jaya Hoogland, Damar Brglez, Mojca Koloski, Boshko Purver, Matthew Pollak, Senja |
| author_facet | Caporusso, Jaya Hoogland, Damar Brglez, Mojca Koloski, Boshko Purver, Matthew Pollak, Senja |
| contents | Dehumanisation involves the perception and or treatment of a social group's members as less than human. This phenomenon is rarely addressed with computational linguistic techniques. We adapt a recently proposed approach for English, making it easier to transfer to other languages and to evaluate, introducing a new sentiment resource, the use of zero-shot cross-lingual valence and arousal detection, and a new method for statistical significance testing. We then apply it to study attitudes to migration expressed in Slovene newspapers, to examine changes in the Slovene discourse on migration between the 2015-16 migration crisis following the war in Syria and the 2022-23 period following the war in Ukraine. We find that while this discourse became more negative and more intense over time, it is less dehumanising when specifically addressing Ukrainian migrants compared to others. |
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| spellingShingle | A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media Caporusso, Jaya Hoogland, Damar Brglez, Mojca Koloski, Boshko Purver, Matthew Pollak, Senja Computation and Language Dehumanisation involves the perception and or treatment of a social group's members as less than human. This phenomenon is rarely addressed with computational linguistic techniques. We adapt a recently proposed approach for English, making it easier to transfer to other languages and to evaluate, introducing a new sentiment resource, the use of zero-shot cross-lingual valence and arousal detection, and a new method for statistical significance testing. We then apply it to study attitudes to migration expressed in Slovene newspapers, to examine changes in the Slovene discourse on migration between the 2015-16 migration crisis following the war in Syria and the 2022-23 period following the war in Ukraine. We find that while this discourse became more negative and more intense over time, it is less dehumanising when specifically addressing Ukrainian migrants compared to others. |
| title | A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07036 |