SoCS: Collaborative Research: Data Driven, Computational Models for Discovery and Analysis of Framing

SoCS：协作研究：用于框架发现和分析的数据驱动计算模型

• 批准号: 1211153
• 负责人: Philip Resnik
• 金额: $ 16.44万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1211153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SoCS; Collaborative; Research; Data; Driven

This project studies framing, a central concept in political communication that refers to portraying an issue from one perspective with corresponding de-emphasis of competing perspectives. Framing is known to significantly influence public attitudes toward policy issues and policy outcomes. As social media allow greater citizen engagement in political discourse, scientific study of the political world requires reliable analysis of how issues are framed, not only by traditional media and elites but by citizens participating in public discourse. Yet conventional content analysis for frame discovery and classification is complex and labor-intensive. Additionally, existing methods are ill-equipped to capture those many instances when one frame evolves into another frame over time. This project therefore develops new computational modeling methods, grounded in data-driven computational linguistics, aimed at improving the scientific understanding of how issues are framed by political elites, the media, and the public. This collaboration between political scientists and computer scientists has four goals: (a) developing novel methods for semi-automated frame discovery, whereby computational models guided by political scientists? expert knowledge speed up and augment their analytical process; (b) developing novel algorithms based on natural language processing for automatic frame analysis, producing measurably accurate results comparable with reliable human coders; (c) establishing the validity of these processes on well-understood cases; and (d) applying these methods to several current policy issues, using data across years and across traditional and social media streams. The resulting evolutionary framing data will help unpack the mechanisms of framing and help predict trends in public opinion and policy.

这个项目研究框架，在政治传播的中心概念，是指描绘一个问题，从一个角度与相应的削弱竞争的观点的重点。 众所周知，框架会显着影响公众对政策问题和政策结果的态度。 由于社交媒体允许更多的公民参与政治话语，对政治世界的科学研究需要可靠的分析，不仅是传统媒体和精英，而且是参与公共话语的公民。然而，用于帧发现和分类的传统内容分析是复杂且劳动密集的。另外，现有方法不足以捕获当一个帧随时间演变成另一帧时的那些许多实例。因此，该项目开发了新的计算建模方法，以数据驱动的计算语言学为基础，旨在提高对政治精英，媒体和公众如何构建问题的科学理解。 政治科学家和计算机科学家之间的这种合作有四个目标：（a）开发半自动框架发现的新方法，从而由政治科学家指导的计算模型？专家知识加速和增强了他们的分析过程;（B）开发基于自然语言处理的自动框架分析新算法，产生可与可靠的人类编码人员相比的可衡量的准确结果;（c）确定这些过程在众所周知的案例中的有效性;（d）利用多年来以及传统和社交媒体流的数据，将这些方法应用于当前的几个政策问题。由此产生的进化框架数据将有助于揭示框架机制，并有助于预测公众舆论和政策的趋势。