Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models

This work describes a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We use Transformer language models fine-tuned for detection of sentiment (positive, negative) and Ekman’s six basic emotions (anger, disg...

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Main Authors: David Rozado, Ruth Hughes, Jamin Halberstadt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9578611/?tool=EBI