The CyberEquity Lab at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of Facebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in Gaza-Israel War Coverage in Five Languages
Mohammed Helal, Radi Jarrar, Mohammed Alkhanafseh, Abdallah Karakra, Ruba Awadallah
Abstract
This paper presents The_CyberEquity_Lab team’s participation in the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task (Zaghouani, et al., 2024). The task is to annotate a corpus of Facebook posts into bias and propaganda in covering the Gaza-Israel war. The posts represent news articles written in five different languages. The paper presents the guidelines of annotation that the team has adhered in identifying both bias and propaganda in coverage of this continuous conflict.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.arabicnlp-1.66
- Volume:
- Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
- Venues:
- ArabicNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 614–619
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.66
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mohammed Helal, Radi Jarrar, Mohammed Alkhanafseh, Abdallah Karakra, and Ruba Awadallah. 2024. The CyberEquity Lab at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of Facebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in Gaza-Israel War Coverage in Five Languages. In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, pages 614–619, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The CyberEquity Lab at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of Facebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in Gaza-Israel War Coverage in Five Languages (Helal et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.arabicnlp-1.66.pdf