Resources & Publications

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Resources

Publications

2025

Hinterreiter, Smi; Wessel, Martin; Schliski, Fabian; Echizen, Isao; Latoschik, Marc Erich; Spinde, Timo

NewsUnfold: Creating a News-Reading Application That Indicates Linguistic Media Bias and Collects Feedback Proceedings Article Forthcoming

In: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'25), AAAI, Copenhagen, Denmark, Forthcoming, (Conditionally accepted for publication).

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: crowdsourcing, HITL, linguistic bias, media bias, news bias

2024

Hinterreiter, Smi; Spinde, Timo; Oberdörfer, Sebastian; Echizen, Isao; Latoschik, Marc Erich

News Ninja: Gamified Annotation of Linguistic Bias in Online News Journal Article Forthcoming

In: Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., vol. 8, no. CHI PLAY, Forthcoming, (Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery. Conditionally accepted for publication).

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: crowdsourcing, Game With A Purpose, linguistic bias, media bias, news bias

Wessel, Martin; Horych, Tomas

Beyond the Surface: Spurious Cues in Automatic Media Bias Detection Proceedings Article

In: Bharathi B Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Paul Buitelaar (Ed.): Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pp. 21–30, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024.

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Horych, Tomas; Wessel, Martin; Wahle, Jan Philip; Ruas, Terry; Wassmuth, Jerome; Greiner-Petter, Andre; Aizawa, Akiko; Gipp, Bela; Spinde, Timo

MAGPIE: Multi-Task Analysis of Media-Bias Generalization with Pre-Trained Identification of Expressions Proceedings Article

In: "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation", 2024.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: dataset, multi-task learning, Transfer learning

2023

Wessel, Martin; Horych, Tomas; Ruas, Terry; Aizawa, Akiko; Gipp, Bela; Spinde, Timo

Introducing MBIB - the first Media Bias Identification Benchmark Task and Dataset Collection Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’23), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-4503-9408-6/23/07.

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Spinde, Timo; Richter, Elisabeth; Wessel, Martin; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Donnay, Karsten

What do Twitter comments tell about news article bias? Assessing the impact of news article bias on its perception on Twitter Journal Article

In: Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 37-38, pp. 100264, 2023, ISSN: 2468-6964.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Hate speech detection, media bias, Sentiment analysis, Transfer learning

Spinde, Timo; Hinterreiter, Smi; Haak, Fabian; Ruas, Terry; Giese, Helge; Meuschke, Norman; Gipp, Bela

The Media Bias Taxonomy: A Systematic Literature Review on the Forms and Automated Detection of Media Bias Journal Article

In: arXiv preprint, 2023.

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2022

Krieger, David; Spinde, Timo; Ruas, Terry; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Gipp, Bela

A Domain-adaptive Pre-training Approach for Language Bias Detection in News Proceedings Article

In: 2022 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Cologne, Germany, 2022.

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Zhukova, Anastasia; Hamborg, Felix; Gipp, Bela

Towards Evaluation of Cross-document Coreference Resolution Models Using Datasets with Diverse Annotation Schemes Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 4884–4893, European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France, 2022.

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Spinde, Timo; Krieger, Jan-David; Ruas, Terry; Mitrović, Jelena; Götz-Hahn, Franz; Aizawa, Akiko; Gipp, Bela

Exploiting Transformer-based Multitask Learning for the Detection of Media Bias in News Articles Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the iConference 2022, Virtual event, 2022.

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Spinde, Timo; Jeggle, Christin; Haupt, Magdalena; Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; Giese, Helge

How do we raise media bias awareness effectively? Effects of visualizations to communicate bias Journal Article

In: PLOS ONE, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1-14, 2022.

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Haak, Fabian; Schaer, Philipp

Auditing Search Query Suggestion Bias Through Recursive Algorithm Interrogation Proceedings Article

In: WebSci '22: 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022, ACM, 2022.

BibTeX | Tags: bias esupol haak myown schaer

Zhukova, Anastasia; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela

XCoref: Cross-Document Coreference Resolution in the Wild Proceedings Article

In: Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future: 17th International Conference, IConference 2022, Virtual Event, February 28 – March 4, 2022, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 272–291, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-96956-1.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-document coreference resolution, media bias, news analysis

2021

Spinde, Timo; Plank, Manuel; Krieger, Jan-David; Ruas, Terry; Gipp, Bela; Aizawa, Akiko

Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE - Bias Annotations By Experts Proceedings Article

In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, Dominican Republic, 2021.

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Hinterreiter, Smi

A Gamified Approach To Automatically Detect Biased Wording And Train Critical Reading Proceedings Article

In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2021.

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Spinde, Timo

An Interdisciplinary Approach for the Automated Detection and Visualization of Media Bias in News Articles Proceedings Article

In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2021.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: media bias, news analysis, slanted coverage, text retrieval

Spinde, Timo; Sinha, Kanishka; Meuschke, Norman; Gipp, Bela

TASSY - A Text Annotation Survey System Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2021.

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Spinde, Timo; Kreuter, Christina; Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; Hamborg, Felix; Gipp, Bela; Giese, Helge

Do You Think It’s Biased? How To Ask For The Perception Of Media Bias Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2021.

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Spinde, Timo; Krieger, David; Plank, Manu; Gipp, Bela

Towards A Reliable Ground-Truth For Biased Language Detection Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Virtual Event, 2021.

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Haak, Fabian; Engelmann, Björn

IRCologne at GermEval 2021: Toxicity Classification Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the GermEval 2021 Shared Task on the Identification of Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments, pp. 47–53, Association for Computational Linguistics, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2021.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 2021 bias classification data engelmann haak nlp programming snorkel toxic

Hamborg, F.; Heinser, K.; Zhukova, A.; Donnay, K.; Gipp, B.

Newsalyze: Effective Communication of Person-Targeting Biases in News Articles Proceedings Article

In: 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 130-139, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2021.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: visualization;costs;atmospheric measurements;voting;natural languages;manuals;particle measurements

Cabot, Pere-Lluís Huguet; Abadi, David; Fischer, Agneta; Shutova, Ekaterina

Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Populist Attitudes, News Bias and Emotions Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pp. 1921–1945, Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, 2021.

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Spinde, Timo; Rudnitckaia, Lada; Hamborg, Felix; Bela,; Gipp,

Identification of Biased Terms in News Articles by Comparison of Outlet-specific Word Embeddings Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the iConference 2021, Beijing, China (Virtual Event), 2021.

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Spinde, Timo; Rudnitckaia, Lada; Kanishka, Sinha; Hamborg, Felix; Bela,; Gipp,; Donnay, Karsten

MBIC – A Media Bias Annotation Dataset Including Annotator Characteristics Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the iConference 2021, Beijing, China (Virtual Event), 2021.

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Spinde, Timo; Rudnitckaia, Lada; Mitrović, Jelena; Hamborg, Felix; Granitzer, Michael; Gipp, Bela; Donnay, Karsten

Automated identification of bias inducing words in news articles using linguistic and context-oriented features Journal Article

In: Information Processing & Management, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 102505, 2021, ISSN: 0306-4573.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: bias data set, context analysis, feature engineering, media bias, news analysis, text analysis

Ehrhardt, Jonas; Spinde, Timo; Vardasbi, Ali; Hamborg, Felix

Omission of Information: Identifying Political Slant via an Analysis of Co-occurring Entities Book Section

In: Information between Data and Knowledge, vol. 74, pp. 80–93, Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt, 2021, (Session 2: Information Behavior and Information Literacy 2).

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: media bias; bias by omission; news articles; co-occurrences

Garz, Marcel; Martin, Gregory J.

Media Influence on Vote Choices: Unemployment News and Incumbents' Electoral Prospects Journal Article

In: American Journal of Political Science, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 278-293, 2021.

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Babaei, Mahmoudreza; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Chakraborty, Abhijnan; Redmiles, Elissa M.; Cha, Meeyoung; Gummadi, Krishna P.

Analyzing Biases in Perception of Truth in News Stories and Their Implications for Fact Checking Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2021.

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Haak, Fabian; Schaer, Philipp

Perception-Aware Bias Detection for Query Suggestions Proceedings Article

In: Boratto, Ludovico; Faralli, Stefano; Marras, Mirko; Stilo, Giovanni (Ed.): Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval - Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2021, Lucca, Italy, April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-78817-9.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: 2021 bias esupol haak myown schaer

Zhukova, Anastasia; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela

Concept Identification of Directly and Indirectly Related Mentions Referring to Groups of Persons Proceedings Article

In: Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: 16th International Conference, IConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 514–526, Springer-Verlag, Beijing, China, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-71291-4.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Coreference resolution, media bias, news analysis

2020

Cabot, Pere-Lluís Huguet; Dankers, Verna; Abadi, David; Fischer, Agneta; Shutova, Ekaterina

The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political Discourse Proceedings Article

In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pp. 4479–4488, Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, 2020.

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Spinde, Timo; Hamborg, Felix; Gipp, Bela

Media Bias in German News Articles : A Combined Approach Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics ( INRA 2020), Virtual event, 2020.

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Ganguly, Soumen; Kulshrestha, Juhi; An, Jisun; Kwak, Haewoon

Empirical Evaluation of Three Common Assumptions in Building Political Media Bias Datasets Proceedings Article

In: pp. 939-943, 2020.

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Spinde, Timo; Hamborg, Felix; Gipp, Bela

An Integrated Approach to Detect Media Bias in German News Articles Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, pp. 505–506, Association for Computing Machinery, Virtual Event, China, 2020, ISBN: 9781450375856.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: content analysis, frame analysis, media bias, news bias, news slant

Spinde, Timo; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Becerra, Angelica; Gipp, Bela

Enabling News Consumers to View and Understand Biased News Coverage: A Study on the Perception and Visualization of Media Bias Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, pp. 389–392, Association for Computing Machinery, Virtual Event, China, 2020, ISBN: 9781450375856.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: bias visualization, news bias, news slant, perception of news

Garz, Marcel; Sörensen, Jil; Stone, Daniel F.

Partisan selective engagement: Evidence from Facebook Journal Article

In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 177, pp. 91-108, 2020, ISSN: 0167-2681.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Filter bubble, media bias, Polarization, Political immunity, Social media

Garz, Marcel; Sood, Gaurav; Stone, Daniel F.; Wallace, Justin

The supply of media slant across outlets and demand for slant within outlets: Evidence from US presidential campaign news Journal Article

In: European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 63, pp. 101877, 2020, ISSN: 0176-2680.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Horse race news, media bias, Media slant, Motivated beliefs, Polarization, Selective exposure

Hamborg, Felix; Zhukova, Anastasia; Gipp, Bela

Automated Identification of Media Bias by Word Choice and Labeling in News Articles Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 18th Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 196–205, IEEE Press, Champaign, Illinois, 2020, ISBN: 9781728115474.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: automated content analysis, automated frame analysis, CAQDAS, CAS, emotions, entity perception, news bias, news slant, NLP

2019

Bonart, Malte; Samokhina, Anastasiia; Heisenberg, Gernot; Schaer, Philipp

An investigation of biases in web search engine query suggestions Journal Article

In: Online Information Review, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 365-381, 2019, ISSN: 1468-4527.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: bias bonart esupol myown schaer

Kulshrestha, Juhi; Eslami, Motahhare; Messias, Johnnatan; Zafar, Muhammad Bilal; Ghosh, Saptarshi; Gummadi, Krishna P.; Karahalios, Karrie

Search bias quantification : investigating political bias in social media and web search Journal Article

In: Information Retrieval Journal, vol. 22, no. 1-2, pp. 188–227, 2019, ISSN: 1386-4564.

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Hamborg, Felix; Zhukova, Anastasia; Gipp, Bela

Illegal Aliens or Undocumented Immigrants? Towards the Automated Identification of Bias by Word Choice and Labeling Proceedings Article

In: Taylor, Natalie Greene; Christian-Lamb, Caitlin; Martin, Michelle H.; Nardi, Bonnie (Ed.): Information in Contemporary Society, pp. 179–187, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-15742-5.

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2018

Babaei, Mahmoudreza; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Chakraborty, Abhijnan; Benevenuto, Fabrício; Gummadi, Krishna P.; Weller, Adrian

Purple Feed: Identifying High Consensus News Posts on Social Media Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 10–16, Association for Computing Machinery, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2018, ISBN: 9781450360128.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: audience leaning based features, consensus, news consumption in social media, Polarization, purple feed

Ribeiro, Filipe N.; Henrique, Lucas; Benevenuto, Fabricio; Chakraborty, Abhijnan; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Babaei, Mahmoudreza; Gummadi, Krishna P.

Media Bias Monitor : Quantifying Biases of Social Media News Outlets at Large-Scale Proceedings Article

In: Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pp. 290–299, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-57735-798-8.

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Bonart, Malte; Schaer, Philipp

Intertemporal Connections Between Query Suggestions and Search Engine Results for Politics Related Queries Proceedings Article

In: EuroCSS 2018 Dataset Challenge, Cologne, 2018.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: bias bonart esupol myown schaer

2014

Garz, Marcel

Good news and bad news: evidence of media bias in unemployment reports Journal Article

In: Public Choice, vol. 161, no. 3/4, pp. 499–515, 2014, ISSN: 00485829, 15737101.

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