A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media

arXiv:2404.07036v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 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 …

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