Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports

Gosse Minnema; Sara Gemelli; Chiara Zanchi; Viviana Patti; Tommaso Caselli; Malvina Nissim

Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports

Gosse Minnema^*, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Viviana Patti, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim

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We propose using a FrameNet-based approach for analyzing how socially relevant events are framed in media discourses. Taking femicides as an example, we perform a preliminary investigation on a large dataset of news reports and event data covering recent femicides in Italy. First, we revisit the EVALITA 2011 shared task on Italian frame labeling, and test a recent multilingual frame semantic parser against this benchmark. Then, we experiment with specializing this model for Italian and perform a human evaluation to test our model’s real-world applicability. We show how FrameNet-based analyses can help to identify linguistic constructions that background the agentivity and responsibility of femicide perpetrators in Italian news.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
Editors	Elisabetta Fersini, Marco Passarotti, Viviana Patti
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2021: CLiC-it 2021 - Milan, Italy Duration: 26-Jan-2022 → 28-Jan-2022 Conference number: 8

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Conference	Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2021
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	26/01/2022 → 28/01/2022

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frame semantics
perspectives
computational linguistics
NLP

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Minnema, G, Gemelli, S, Zanchi, C, Patti, V, Caselli, T & Nissim, M 2021, Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports. in E Fersini, M Passarotti & V Patti (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2021, Milan, Italy, 26/01/2022.

Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports. / Minnema, Gosse; Gemelli, Sara; Zanchi, Chiara et al.
Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. ed. / Elisabetta Fersini; Marco Passarotti; Viviana Patti. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2021.

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