TY - GEN
T1 - Prta
T2 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020
AU - da San Martino, Giovanni
AU - Shaar, Shaden
AU - Zhang, Yifan
AU - Yu, Seunghak
AU - Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto
AU - Nakov, Preslav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Recent events, such as the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, Brexit and the COVID-19 “infodemic”, have brought into the spotlight the dangers of online disinformation. There has been a lot of research focusing on fact-checking and disinformation detection. However, little attention has been paid to the specific rhetorical and psychological techniques used to convey propaganda messages. Revealing the use of such techniques can help promote media literacy and critical thinking, and eventually contribute to limiting the impact of “fake news” and disinformation campaigns. Prta (Propaganda Persuasion Techniques Analyzer) allows users to explore the articles crawled on a regular basis by highlighting the spans in which propaganda techniques occur and to compare them on the basis of their use of propaganda techniques. The system further reports statistics about the use of such techniques, overall and over time, or according to filtering criteria specified by the user based on time interval, keywords, and/or political orientation of the media. Moreover, it allows users to analyze any text or URL through a dedicated interface or via an API. The system is available online: https://www.tanbih.org/prta.
AB - Recent events, such as the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, Brexit and the COVID-19 “infodemic”, have brought into the spotlight the dangers of online disinformation. There has been a lot of research focusing on fact-checking and disinformation detection. However, little attention has been paid to the specific rhetorical and psychological techniques used to convey propaganda messages. Revealing the use of such techniques can help promote media literacy and critical thinking, and eventually contribute to limiting the impact of “fake news” and disinformation campaigns. Prta (Propaganda Persuasion Techniques Analyzer) allows users to explore the articles crawled on a regular basis by highlighting the spans in which propaganda techniques occur and to compare them on the basis of their use of propaganda techniques. The system further reports statistics about the use of such techniques, overall and over time, or according to filtering criteria specified by the user based on time interval, keywords, and/or political orientation of the media. Moreover, it allows users to analyze any text or URL through a dedicated interface or via an API. The system is available online: https://www.tanbih.org/prta.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116741983&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116741983
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
SP - 287
EP - 293
BT - ACL 2020 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the System Demonstrations
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 5 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -