Research Presentation: Uncovering Text Features of Hyper-partisan News using NLP with Deep Learning

Time: 11:00 am – 12:00pm, Thursday, March 21, 2019
Location: Scarfe Library Block, Room 278

Presenter: Chiyu Zhang (PhD student in iSchool), Xuejun Ryan Ji (PhD student in MERM), & Yadong Liu (PhD student in Linguistics)

This study aims to identify typical text features of hyperpartisan news via a set of text analytic approaches, as well as detect hyperpartisan news by employing various deep learning architectures. We will demonstrate how to use natural language processing techniques to obtain information from text data.

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