LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty.

Oscar Araque; Lorenzo Gatti; Kyriaki Kalimeri

doi:10.1145/3524458.3547264

LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty.

Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri

Human Media Interaction

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Abstract

Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals' concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation. The Moral Foundation Theory (MFT) was developed to operationalise morality in a five-dimensional scale system. Recent developments of the theory urged for the introduction of a new foundation, the Liberty Foundation. Being only recently added to the theory, there are no available linguistic resources to assess whether liberty is present in text corpora. Given its importance to current social issues such as the vaccination debate, we propose two data-driven approaches, deriving two candidate lexicons generated based on aligned documents from online news sources with different worldviews. After extensive experimentation, we contribute to the research community a novel lexicon that assesses the liberty moral foundation in the way individuals with contrasting viewpoints express themselves through written text. The LibertyMFD dictionary can be a valuable tool for policymakers to understand diverse viewpoints on controversial social issues such as vaccination, abortion, or even uprisings, as they happen and on a large scale.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GoodIT 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	154-160
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9284-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3524458.3547264
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2022
Event	2nd ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2022 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 7 Sept 2022 → 9 Sept 2022 Conference number: 2

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2nd ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2022
Abbreviated title	GoodIT 2022
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	7/09/22 → 9/09/22

Keywords

lexicon
liberty
moral foundations theory
moral values
natural language processing
word embeddings
2023 OA procedure

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Araque, O, Gatti, L & Kalimeri, K 2022, LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty. in GoodIT 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 154-160, 2nd ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, GoodIT 2022, Limassol, Cyprus, 7/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524458.3547264

LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty. / Araque, Oscar; Gatti, Lorenzo; Kalimeri, Kyriaki.
GoodIT 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 154-160 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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