PoliticalNLP 2024

Program PoliticalNLP @ LREC-COLING 2024 (Full day workshop) 

Tuesday, May 21st , 2024 - Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia)

09:00–09:10 Opening and Welcome by Haithem Afli

09:10–09:40   Some Unchained Thoughts on Language, Computer, and Politics

                       Keynote Speech by Patrick Paroubek

09:40–10:45 Oral session 1: Political News and Sentiment 

09:40–10:05    Multi-Dimensional Insights: Annotated Dataset of Stance, Sentiment, and Emotion in Facebook Comments 

                        on Tunisia’s July 25   Measures

                       Sanaa Laabar and Wajdi Zaghouani

10:05–10:30   Deciphering Political Entity Sentiment in News with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Strategies

                       Alapan Kuila and Sudeshna Sarkar

10:30–11:00 Morning Coffee Break

11:00–13:00 Oral session 2: Political User-Generated Content 

11:00–11:25 Masking Explicit Pro-Con Expressions for Development of a Stance Classification Dataset on Assembly Minutes

                          Tomoyosi Akiba, Yuki Gato, Yasutomo Kimura, Yuzu Uchida and Keiichi Takamaru

11:25–11:50 Analysing Pathos in User-Generated Argumentative Text

                  Natalia Evgrafova, Veronique Hoste and Els Lefever

11:50–12:15 Echo-chambers and Idea Labs: Communication Styles on Twitter

                      Aleksandra Sorokovikova, Michael Becker and Ivan P. Yamshchikov

12:15–12:45 Knowledge Graph Representation for Political Information Sources

                   Tinatin Osmonova, Alexey Tikhonov and Ivan P. Yamshchikov

13:00–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–14:45     GenAI and LLMs: Shaping Social and Political Sciences

                          Panel discussion featuring Stephanie Brand, Cristina Blasi Casagran, and Sahar Ghanney 

                          with moderation by Haithem Afli.

14:45–16:45 Oral session 3: Political Events and Reports 

14:45–15:10 Event Detection in the Socio Political Domain

                      Emmanuel CARTIER and Hristo Tanev

15:10–15:35 Analyzing Conflict Through Data: A Dataset on the Digital Framing of Sheikh Jarrah Evictions 

                      Anatolii Shestakov and Wajdi Zaghouani 

15:35–16:00 Semi-Automatic Topic Discovery and Classification for Epidemic Intelligence via Large Language Models                    

                      Federico Borazio, Danilo Croce, Giorgio Gambosi, Roberto Basili,Daniele Margiotta, Antonio Scaiella, Martina Del Manso, 

                        Daniele Petrone, Andrea Cannone, Alberto M. Urdiales, Chiara Sacco, Patrizio Pezzotti, Flavia Ric- cardo, 

                        Daniele Mipatrini, Federica Ferraro and Sobha Pilati

16:00–16:30 Afternoon Coffee Break

16:30–16:55 Towards quantifying politicization in foreign aid project reports

                      Sidi Wang, Gustav Eggers, Alexia de Roode Torres Georgiadis,Tuan Anh Ðo, Léa Gontard, Ruth Carlitz and Jelke Bloem

16:55–17:00 Closing remarks by Haithem Afli