@inproceedings{remijnse-etal-2024-tracking,
    title = "Tracking Perspectives on Event Participants: a Structural Analysis of the Framing of Real-World Events in Co-Referential Corpora",
    author = "Remijnse, Levi  and
      Sommerauer, Pia  and
      Fokkens, Antske  and
      Vossen, Piek T.J.M.",
    editor = "Sommerauer, Pia  and
      Caselli, Tommaso  and
      Nissim, Malvina  and
      Remijnse, Levi  and
      Vossen, Piek",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2024.rfp-1.1/",
    pages = "1--12",
    abstract = "In this paper, we present the outcome of a structural linguistic analysis performed on a referentially grounded FrameNet dataset. In this dataset, multiple Dutch events are referenced by multiple co-referential Dutch news texts. Mentions in those documents are annotated with respect to their referential grounding (i.e., links to structured Wikidata), and their conceptual representation (i.e., frames). Provided with each document's temporal reporting distance, we selected documents for two events - the Utrecht shooting and MH17 - and performed an analysis in which we tracked the events' participants over time in both their focalization (number of mentions) and their framing (distribution of frame element labels). This way, we use the carefully collected and annotated data to schematize shifts in focalization and perspectivization of the participants as a result of the constantly developing narrative surrounding the events. This novel type of linguistic research involves reference to the real-world referents and takes into account storytelling in news streams."
}