PhD ceremony Gosse Minnema: Perspective matters: framing events in language and society
| When: | Th 13-06-2024 |
| Where: | Academy building RUG |
Did "a cyclist tragically die in traffic" or did "a car driver hit and killed a cyclist"? Do we say "three injuries during protest" or "riot police injures three protesters"? Different linguistic choices to describe the same event give rise to different framings of that event and can influence people's perception of what happened. While this is a well-known concept in social sciences and discourse studies, it so far has received little attention in computational linguistics. In this thesis, we develop SocioFillmore: an approach that integrates insights from cognitive linguistics and modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to automatically analyze how societally-important events are conceptualized in language.
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June 13, 2024
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11:00
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Arts
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